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Pte William David Nash
British Army C Company Border Regiment
from:Bolton-on-Swale
(d.1st July 1916)
My uncle, William David Nash, enlisted on 6th October 1914 aged 19 years 4 months. He was in the 11th Lonsdale Battalion of the Border Regiment. Although a Yorkshire lad, he was working at Orton Hall in Cumbria as a groom or footman and so he enlisted at Kendal. His father had been a groom and carter at Kiplin Hall in Yorkshire, so in his choice of job William was following in his father's footsteps.
He died on 1st July 1916 during an advance on the Leipzig Redoubt from Authuille Wood. The Battalion lost 516 men that day. He is buried in the Lonsdale Cemetery at Authuille, grave ref 1.C.18.
He was very much mourned by his (much younger) sister Agnes - my mother.