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Pte. William Surtees
British Army 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards

(d.19th Sep 1914)
William Surtees was a regular soldier with the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guard. He first served in WW1 Action from 12th August 1914. He was born in Jarrow 1882, son of Edward and the late Mary Ann Surtees (nee Hull). He lived and enlisted Jarrow. On the 1911 Census William Surtees, age 28, a Ship Plater's Helper in the shipbuilding yard, is listed as living with his Widowed Father, Edward Surtees & his siblings at 11, Albert road, Jarrow-on-Tyne.
William is remembered on the La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial and is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph Jarrow.

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