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Pte. William Gray

British Army 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry

from:Hebburn

(d.16th Nov 1914)

William Gray was a regular soldier with the 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry. He was aged 30 when he died on 16th November 1914. Born in Jarrow, he lived in Hebburn. William Gray age 27 Painters Labourer in Shipyard is a prisoner in Police Station Cells, Jarrow on the 1911 census. He enlisted in Barnard Castle giving his next of kin as his brother Robert Althon Gray of 163 Sunderland Road, Gateshead.

William is remembered on the Ploegsteert Memorial and is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph (south face) Jarrow.



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