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Fred Naylor B A

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Forename Fred
Surname Naylor B A
Middle Name
Memorial Aspull and Wigan Cenotaphs
Age 23
Address
Parents' Address 2 Longfield Street, New Springs
Township Aspull
Rank Lieutenant
Occupation or place of work Assistant master Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury, (Wiltshire)
Regiment The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) 4th Batt
Day of Death 12
Month of Death April
Year of Death 1918
Cause of Death Killed by a machine gun bullet
Place of Burial PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL Panel 2
Regiment Number
Name of War First World War
Location Aspull
Additional Information Died near Ploegsteert Wood, Discrepancy between Wigan Observer died 11/4/1918 Wiltshire Regiment & CWGC died 12/4/1918 The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Place of death/memorial is the same in both records. Attended Wesleyan Elementary School & Wigan Grammar School. Liverpool University and taught at St Thomas's School Wigan
CWGC, Ancestry and Wigan Grammar School Old Boys Association, WO 18/5/18