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YORK STREET developed around 1895

28    Lance Corporal 24919 T Mansell Mason, 9 Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers.  Parents of while he is living in Coventry and Halifax.

36    Private 21927 Reginald Archer, 118 Machine Gun Company.    Parents home circa 1914 Reginald born Knottingley, Yorkshire and moved with his parents to Wakefield and Cambridgeshire. Reginald stayed in Cambridge when his parents moved to Oswestry.

42  Private 17061 Charles Clifford Judge, 5 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.  Born and lived in Crewe.  His father lived on York Street.

53   Rifleman 2425 Job Rees, 1/5 Bn King’s Liverpool Regiment.   Also lived at Welsh Walls. Moved to Liverpool to live and work at Compton Hotel.

56  Private 31138 Robert Williams, 8 Bn South Lancashire Regiment.     Born in Hereford the family moved to Bangor then Oswestry. After his marriage lived in Pant.

83   Private 5151 Robert C Evans, 1 Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Family home no record in 1911 of where he was living. His parents would moved later to Beatrice Street.

87    Lance Corporal L/399 William Nock Price,  B Squadron, 12th (Prince of Wales Royal) Lancers.     Born in Shrewsbury  and worked in Church Stretton.

95   Ableseaman J/28071 Charles E  Jones, Royal Navy ‘HMS Magic’.   Also lived at Victoria Street

101   Private 44255 John Thomas, 2 Bn South Wales Borderers.  In 1911 with wife Florry and 2 girls, Rose & Nesta, parents lived at 81 Beatrice Street

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