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Pte. John Robert Nelson
British Army 20th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
from:New Brancepeth, Durham
(d.1917)
I know John Nelson was 18 when he was killed according local records of service of members of New Brancepeth working men's club. According to these he was killed in Italy in 1917. I can't find any record of him at all regarding his service or Commonwealth War Graves but he is on the war memorial in New Brancepeth a former mining village just outside of Durham City.
His eldest brother, James, was also in the 20th Battalion DLI and was killed on 28th July 1917 by artillery fire alongside one officer and 4 others. The officer has a grave and James is commemorated on the Menin Gate as well as the aforementioned memorial.
If anyone could provide more information about John Robert Nelson I would be eternally grateful.