Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Great War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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Sgt. William Henry Hands MM.

British Army 11th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment

from:Drakes Cross, Wythall, Nr Birmingham

(d.12th May 1917)

Do not know very much at all about William Hands except that in the 1911 census he was still living at home aged 16, with dad, George and mother, Ellen (his father was a house painter). He was working at Cadburys as a chocolate moulder. He died of his wounds and was buried in the Military Cemetery at Lijssenthoek, 10 miles west of Ieper nr Poperinge.



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