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19 December 1917: Pte. John Fort Berry
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John Berry was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire in the last quarter of 1896. Before the war John, the eldest, assisted his father James who was a butcher. He had four younger brothers James, Robert and Frederick. He enlisted in Morecambe and was drafted out to France in May, 1915. Exactly a year later, he sustained a bullet wound in the neck. He...