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Bandsman William Dyson, 19425
Bandsman William Dyson, 19425
Lancashire Fusiliers 17th Bn.
Newspaper obituary:
"Bandsman William Dyson, Lancashire Fusiliers, has been killed in France by shrapnel. His mother has received the following letter from the Rev. Tewkesbury Hull, chaplain to the forces:
Dear Mrs Dyson, - I am so sorry to have to write to tell you of your son's death. He was struck on the head by shrapnel just as he was going into billets and passed away quite peacefully a few minutes later. Your husband was with him at the time, and although it was a terrible blow, yet it is a great comfort to him to be there with your lad at the last. We laid his body to rest in a little cemetery close beside the guns and hope in time to out a cross upon his grave. His officers and several men from his company came to the funeral to show their respect for your son's life and character. Mr Dyson, of course, is most distressed, but he feels, as no doubt you will come to feel, that your son died doing his duty. There is no better death.
Bandsman Dyson enlisted in Apr 1915, and went to France in January of this year. Before he enlisted he worked for Mesrs J & J Braddock. He was 18 years of age, and his home was 30 Chadderton Road, Oldham."
CWGC
Private, 19425
Date of Death:18/07/1916
Lancashire Fusiliers 17th Bn.
I. D. 5.
PERONNE ROAD CEMETERY, MARICOURT
