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Old 26-03-2017, 05:21 PM
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Default Who was William Griffiths?

Here's a medal that has come my way. To a soldier in the local battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers.

Not having much luck pinning down who he is. (As is often the case)

We can assume in April 1915 he was aged between 19 and 41 and he lived somewhere between Wansbeck and Berwick. (Unless he lied about his age and was younger)

According to his medal index card he sailed with the originals to France on the 21st April 1915, and his christian name was William.

He survived the war, but another man, with the same name in the same battalion, didn't.




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