Harriet was the sister of my grandfather John Coxford. She was born in the village of Corpusty Norfolk in 1860. She married Robert Buttle and they had four children together.
After Robert died she married William Lynn and had two children John and Thomas.
John resided at 3 Holywell Crescent Amble just three doors from me up till the time I left the street in 1970. At the time I never knew that we were related but he would often stop me by his gate and talk about the war but he never mentioned being decorated, he did tell me that he was the youngest serving Regimental Sergeant Major in the British Army at the time
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