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Private Emmerson Beckwith
British Army 8th. Battalion Durham Light Infantry
from:13 Palmer Street, South Moor, Stanley Co. Durham
(d.29th. April 1917)
Emmerson (Emmy) was my father's step brother (aged 25) was killed in the Second Battle of Arras just 6 days after my father's brother in law, Lance Corporal Robert Lightburn (Aged 29) was killed, serving with 11th. Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, in the same battle, but different sectors. The two families lived within 1 mile of each other in the same mining village in North West Durham