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

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Pte. William Wanless

British Army 7th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment

from:Hull

(d.1st July 1916)

William Wanless was the illiterate son of a very poor family. His father was dead and along with his mother, sister and brother, he worked as a rag and bone gatherer. In his last letter from the front he asked for cigarettes for the men in his platoon. A friend 10966 Pte E W Andrew wrote to let his family know of his death in action. The news 'deprived his mother of speech'.



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