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10447 Private William Kidd, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Died 8th June 1915, aged 33. Son of John and Emma Kidd, of Resovious Road, Normacot.



9488 Private T. Toplass, 10th North Staffordshire Regiment. Died 2nd August 1915, aged 49.



10853 Private William Arthur Ledgar, 7th North Staffordshire Regiment. Killed in action in Gallipoli on 10th August 1915, aged 18. Son of William Arthur and Sarah Ledgar.



3263 Corporal William Frederick Dennitts, 1st/6th North Staffordshire Regiment. Killed at the Hohenzollern Redoubt, France, on 13th October 1915, aged 20. Son of Mrs. Alice M. Dennitts, of "Holm Lea", Meir Road, Normacot.





13433 Private J. Stanway, 10th North Staffordshire Regiment. Died 29th June 1916, aged 34. Son of Josiah Stanway; husband of L. Stanway, of 170, Sutherland Road, Longton.



460789 Private Edward Gerrard, 1st (Reserve) Canadian Infantry. Died while serving with the Canadian Overseas Forces on 9th May 1917, aged 50. Husband of M. J. Gerrard, of 65, Uttoxeter Road, Normacot. CWGC database gives his date of death as 10th May 1915.






G/3880 Private William Thomas Lowe, 13th Royal Fusiliers. Died 21st May 1917, aged 35. Husband of Julia A. Lowe, of 90, Buccleuch Road, Normacot.



Signaller Henry Wood. Killed in action in France on 11th August 1917, aged 25.[/b]
Possibly 805161 Gunner H.Wood, Royal Field Artillery. Died 11th August 1917.



Second Lieutenant Dudley Edwards Bridgwood, 1st/5th North Staffordshire Regiment. Died of wounds received in action on 10th October 1917, aged 28.





53037 Private Wilfred Joseph Presbury, 2nd West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own). Killed in action on 27th March 1918, aged 19. Son of Robert A. and Margaret Selina Presbury.



805834 Gunner Harry Waine, 2nd North Midland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Died 21st May 1918, aged 20. Son of Joseph and Sarah Waine, of 35, Upper Normacot Road, Longton.



12629 Corporal Bertram William Bailey, Army Pay Corps. Died 2nd August 1918, aged 24. Son of John and Elize Bailey; husband of Alice Maud Bailey, of 81, Hamilton Road, Normacot.



Second Lieutenant Kenneth John Wolfe Dennitts, 98th Squadron, Royal Air Force. Killed in an air fight over Cambrai on 3rd September 1918, aged 19. Son of Lewis Edgar and Alice Dennitts.



Second Lieutenant William John Brain, 110th Squadron, Royal Air Force. Killed in aerial combat over Coblenz on 21st October 1918, aged 21. Son of William Henry and Alice Maud Brain, of "Holm Lea," Meir Road, Longton





21345 Lance Corporal H. Hassall, Reserve Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Died 4th March 1919, aged 29.



18005 Private William Bell, 1st Royal Welsh Fusiliers, transferred to (449589) Labour Corps. Died 5th March 1919, aged 25. Adopted son of Mary Bagnall, of 62, Uttoxeter Road, Longton.





R/6911 Rifleman W T Roberts, King's Royal Rifle Corps. 12th January 1921.

29901 Private Arthur James, 1st North Staffordshire Regiment. Died 13th January 1921, aged 35. Son of Frederick and Harriett James; husband of Hannah James, of 62, Chaplin Road, Normacot.



2605 Private W. Donkin, 19th Middlesex Regiment. Died 30th January 1921, aged 38. Husband of Hilda Donkin, of 18, Lord Street, Sandford Hill



WR/150955 Sapper F.T.N. Greaves, Royal Engineers. Died 3rd April 1921.



Henry Edwin Middleton. Wounded in the War 1918, died 9th July 1929, aged 47.






939830 Leading Aircraftman (Wireless Operator) Harold Blundred, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Killed in action on 20th June 1941, aged 21. Son of Roland and Sarah Ann Blundred, of Normacot, Stoke-on-Trent; husband of Doris Blundred, of Meir.







13074246 Lance Corporal Wilfred Boon Johnson, Pioneer Corps. Died 14th January 1942. Son of James Johnson, and of Gertrude Selina Johnson, of Meir.



1578763 Sergeant (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) Roy Dawson, Royal Air Force. Died 11th January 1944, aged 21. Son of Harold and Hilda Dawson, of Longton.

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