William Edward Maxey
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William Edward Maxey was born in 1896 the son of Thomas a coal miner contractor and his first wife the late Elizabeth Maxey née Chambers. Thomas was born in 1875 at Kilburn, Elizabeth Chambers was born in 1876 at Holbrook, she died in 1907 aged 31 yrs, married in 1895 and had children, William Edward b1896 Holbrook and Violet Ann b1898 Underwood. His father married Lizzie Hickingbotham in in 1908 at Derby, she brought a child to the marriage Bessie Hickingbotham b1900 Holbrook, in 1911 their family lived on Victoria Road, Selston, Thomas is a coal miner contractor living with his second wife Lizzie and their children,
Private William Edward Maxey served at Gallipoli and Egypt prior to the battalion's movement to France on 1 July 1916. Time was spent at Arras learning about trench warfare before the move to the Somme. William was wounded during the Battle of Thiepval and was moved down the medical chain to the hospital centre at Wimereux (near Boulogne). He died of his wounds there and was buried in the Wimereux Communal Cemetery, grave I. R. 1A.
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