2nd June 2020

2/06/1915 Private John Billington (Age 38) 1st Bn. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen Belgium. ‘11834’ Son of the late John and Susan Billington.

2/06/1915 Private Joseph Whitehurst (Age 29) 2nd Bn. Dickebusch New Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen Belgium. ‘18272’ Husband of Emily Hoyle (formerly Whitehurst), of 15, Sefton Avenue, Congleton, Cheshire.

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2/06/1915 Private Percy Wilson 5th Bn. Spoilbank Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen Belgium. ‘2104’

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2/06/1916 Private Arthur Pearce Higgins (Age 24) 8th Kirkee 1914-1918 Memorial, India. ‘28665’ Son of George Arthur and Jane Higgins, of 45, Catesby St., Leicester.

2/06/1916 Private Richard Hinde 11th Bn. Ste. Marie Cemetery, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime France. ‘16099’

2/06/1916 Private Frank Stephen Peacock 1st Bn. Avesnes-Le-Comte Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais France. ‘10175’

2/06/1918 Major Harry Jex Dresser (Age 33) 1st Bn. attd. 15th Bn. Harponville Communal Cemetery, Somme France. Son of John Henry and Angela Dresser, of London; husband of Meta Mary Dresser, of IC, Grenville Place, South Kensington, London.

2/06/1918 Private James Edward Hartley (Age 28) 1st/6th Bn. La Cheppe (Mont-Frenet) French National Cemetery, Marne France. ‘267272’ Husband of Elizabeth Ann Hartley, of 129, Shear Brow, Blackburn.

2/06/1919 Drummer Thomas Powell 1st Bn. Wolverhampton Borough Cemetery, Staffordshire United Kingdom. ‘8003’

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