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Private

William Thomas Gore

Service Number 266394
Military Unit 1/7th Bn Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment)
Date of birth Unknown
Date of Death 01 Jul 1916 (18 Years Old)
Place of Birth Nottinghamshire
Employment, Education or Hobbies William Gore was still at school (C. 1911)
Family History

William Thomas Gore was the son of Charles Francis Gore and Maria Elizabeth Herrick who married at Nottingham in 1897. They had three children: William Thomas (b.1897), Ada Nellie (b.1898) and Eric Cecil Gore (b.1911). The family lived at: 118 Garfield Road, Radford [C.1901]; 25 Garfield Street [C.1911]; 30 Grimston Road, Radford [n.e.p.9.6.1917]. Charles Francis Gore, who was a cycle fitter in the 1901 census and a printing machine fitter in 1911, died at Nottingham, aged 57, in 1927. His widow, Maria Elizabeth, died, aged 79, in 1953 when she was living at 50 Grimston Road, Radford.

Military History

He enlisted at Nottingham; killed on 1 July 1916, the opening day of the Battle of the Somme; buried at the Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, Foncquevillers, Pas de Calais, France

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