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Private

William Arthur Hollingworth

Service number 33061
Military unit 2nd Bn Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment)
Address 34 Murray Street, Mansfield
Date of birth
Date of death 10 Oct 1918 (25 years old)
Place of birth Unknown
Employment, education or hobbies

Cotton Mill Worker.

Family history

Parents: Thomas and Sarah Hollingworth of 34 Murray Street, Mansfield. His younger brother, Harold had been killed a year and a day previously whilst serving with the Wiltshire Regt.

Military history

Unknown

Extra information

Mansfield Chronicle Advertiser, 17/10/1918: The Hollingworth Brothers, Photograph. Pte Arthur Hollingworth has been killed 10/10/1918. Pte Harold Hollingworth had enlisted 3 1/2 years ago and died October 1917. Pte Tom Hollingworth enlisted 2 years ago. Tom was wounded in Nov 1917 then he contracted diphtheria, then malaria and is still seriously ill in Palastine. Parents live on Murray Street, Mansfield.
Headstone Inscription: "At Peace with Jesus".
This man is commemorated in a book of remembrance held by Mansfield District Council.

Photographs

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