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Holdsworth, William Ewart
HOLDSWORTH,
WILLIAM EWART
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BORN 16 OCTOBER 1898
William Ewart Holdsworth
was born on 16 October 1898, in Scarborough, Yorkshire, son of Arthur Perier Holdsworth a Commercial Traveller (b 1870 in Greenfield, Lincolnshire) and Clara Gertrude Holdsworth (neé Milnes b 1874 in Brampton, Derbyshire).
His parents were married on 12 September 1891 in Yorkshire. William had an older brother Thomas Arthur (b 1895 in Doncaster, Yorkshire).
He entered the Shell form of the School on 13 September 1910, aged 11 and left on 27 July 1914, aged 15. His brother did not attend this School. At this time the family lived at 16, Merfield Road, Knowle, Bristol.
In the census of 1911 his brother was recorded as being a Messenger Boy.
He served first with the Devonshire Regiment and later in the Gloucester Regiment, 2nd/5th Battalion, dying on 24 April 1918, aged 19.
His war grave is in Vieille-Chapelle New Military Cemetery, Lacouture, France, (Grave Reference VA 2).
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