John Duesbery (Sherwood Foresters) killed on Somme, item 13
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COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISION
32 Grosvenor Gardens, London S.W.I
Telephone: SLOANE 0751
Telegrams: COMMGRAVE LONDON SWI
Ref.: CM.180 5th November, 1965
Dear Mr. Duesberry,
Your letter of the 31st October, addressed to The
St. John Ambulance Brigade, had been forwarded to us.
Although your spelling of the surname differs to
the spelling on our records and the War Office records,
in view of the other details you have given I have no
doubt that the subject of your enquiry is Pte. John
Dewsbury, 18260, 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters, who
dies on the 15th September 1916.
I am sorry to have to inform you that after the War
the Army Graves Service were unable to identify any grave
as that of Pte. Dewsbury. He has no known grave and is
commemorated by name on the Thiepval Memorial to the
Missing in France.
This Memorial stands about 5 miles north east of
Albert railway station and south of Thiepval village.
It commemorates over 73,000 members of the forces who
fell in the Some battles between July 1915 and March 1918
and to whom the fortunes of war denied a known grave.
The monument comprises a brick superstructure carried
on 16 masonry piers, and the piers carry the inscribed
names of those commemorated, arranged under Regiment, by
rank and alphabetically. I n all 1484 men of the Sherwood
Foresters are commemorated on this Memorial and their names
appear on Pier 10, Faces C and D and Pier 11, Face A.
Yours sincerely,
there is a signature here but it's unclear
K. Duesberry, Esq., Director-General
51 Fieldhead Rd.,
Guiseley,
Leeds, Yorks.
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COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISION
32 Grosvenor Gardens, London S.W.I
Telephone: SLOANE 0751
Telegrams: COMMGRAVE LONDON SWI
Ref.: CM.180 5th November, 1965
Dear Mr. Duesberry,
Your letter of the 31st October, addressed to The
St. John Ambulance Brigade, had been forwarded to us.
Although your spelling of the surname differs to
the spelling on our records and the War Office records,
in view of the other details you have given I have no
doubt that the subject of your enquiry is Pte. John
Dewsbury, 18260, 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters, who
dies on the 15th September 1916.
I am sorry to have to inform you that after the War
the Army Graves Service were unable to identify any grave
as that of Pte. Dewsbury. He has no known grave and is
commemorated by name on the Thiepval Memorial to the
Missing in France.
This Memorial stands about 5 miles north east of
Albert railway station and south of Thiepval village.
It commemorates over 73,000 members of the forces who
fell in the Some battles between July 1915 and March 1918
and to whom the fortunes of war denied a known grave.
The monument comprises a brick superstructure carried
on 16 masonry piers, and the piers carry the inscribed
names of those commemorated, arranged under Regiment, by
rank and alphabetically. I n all 1484 men of the Sherwood
Foresters are commemorated on this Memorial and their names
appear on Pier 10, Faces C and D and Pier 11, Face A.
Yours sincerely,
there is a signature here but it's unclear
K. Duesberry, Esq., Director-General
51 Fieldhead Rd.,
Guiseley,
Leeds, Yorks.
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COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISION
32 Grosvenor Gardens, London S.W.I
Telephone: SLOANE 0751
Telegrams: COMMGRAVE LONDON SWI
Ref.: CM.180 5th November, 1965
Dear Mr. Duesberry,
Your letter of the 31st October, addressed to The
St. John Ambulance Brigade, had been forwarded to us.
Although your spelling of the surname differs to
the spelling on our records and the War Office records,
in view of the other details you have given I have no
doubt that the subject of your enquiry is Pte. John
Dewsbury, 18260, 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters, who
dies on the 15th September 1916.
I am sorry to have to inform you that after the War
the Army Graves Service were unable to identify any grave
as that of Pte. Dewsbury. He has no known grave and is
commemorated by name on the Thiepval Memorial to the
Missing in France.
This Memorial stands about 5 miles north east of
Albert railway station and south of Thiepval village.
It commemorates over 73,000 members of the forces who
fell in the Some battles between July 1915 and March 1918
and to whom the fortunes of war denied a known grave.
The monument comprises a brick superstructure carried
on 16 masonry piers, and the piers carry the inscribed
names of those commemorated, arranged under Regiment, by
rank and alphabetically. I n all 1484 men of the Sherwood
Foresters are commemorated on this Memorial and their names
appear on Pier 10, Faces C and D and Pier 11, Face A.
Yours sincerely,
there is a signature here but it's unclear
K. Duesberry, Esq.,
51 Fieldhead Rd.,
Guiseley,
Leeds, Yorks.
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COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISION
32 Grosvenor Gardens, London S.W.I
Telephone: SLOANE 0751
Telegrams: COMMGRAVE LONDON SWI
Ref.: CM.180 5th November, 1965
Dear Mr. Duesberry,
Your letter of the 31st October, addressed to The
St. John Ambulance Brigade, had been forwarded to us.
Although your spelling of the surname differs to
the spelling on our records and the War Office records,
in view of the other details you have given I have no
doubt that the subject of your enquiry is Pte. John
Dewsbury, 18260, 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters, who
dies on the 15th September 1916.
I am sorry to have to inform you that after the War
the Army Graves Service were unable to identify any grave
as that of Pte. Dewsbury. He has no known grave and is
commemorated by name on the Thiepval Memorial to the
Missing in France.
This Memorial stands about 5 miles north east of
Albert railway station and south of Thiepval village.
It commemorates over 73,000 members of the forces who
fell in the Some battles between July 1915 and March 1918
and to whom the fortunes of war denied a known grave.
The monument comprises a brick superstructure carried
on 16 masonry piers, and the piers carry the inscribed
names of those commemorated, arranged under Regiment, by
rank and alphabetically. I n all 1484 men of the Sherwood
Foresters are commemorated on this Memorial and their names
appear on Pier 10, Faces C and D and Pier 11, Face A.
-
COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISION
32 Grosvenor Gardens, London S.W.I
Telephone: SLOANE 0751
Telegrams: COMMGRAVE LONDON SWI
Ref.: CM.180 5th November, 1965
Dear Mr. Duesberry,
Your letter of the 31st October, addressed to The
St. John Ambulance Brigade, had been forwarded to us.
Although your spelling of the surname differs to
the spelling on our records and the War Office records,
in view of the other details you have given I have no
doubt that the subject of your enquiry is Pte. John
Dewsbury, 18260, 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters, who
dies on the 15th September 1916.
I am sorry to have to inform you that after the War
the Army Graves Service were unable to identify any grave
as that of Pte. Dewsbury. He has no known grave and is
commemorated by name on the Thiepval Memorial to the
Missing in France.
This Memorial stands about 5 miles north east of
Albert railway station and south of Thiepval village.
-
COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISION
32 Grosvenor Gardens, London S.W.I
Telephone: SLOANE 0751
Telegrams: COMMGRAVE LONDON SWI
Ref.: CM.180 5th November, 1965
Dear Mr. Duesberry,
Your letter of the 31st October, addressed to The
St. John Ambulance Brigade, had been forwarded to us.
Although your spelling of the surname differs to
the spelling on our records and the War Office records,
in view of the other details you have given I have no
doubt that the subject of your enquiry is Pte. John
Dewsbury, 18260, 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters, who
dies on the 15th September 1916.
I am sorry to have to inform you that after the War
the Army Graves Service were unable to identify any grave
as that of Pte. Dewsbury. He has no known grave and is
commemorated by name on the Thiepval Memorial to the
Missing in France.
-
COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISION
32 Grosvenor Gardens, London S.W.I
Telephone: SLOANE 0751
Telegrams: COMMGRAVE LONDON SWI
Ref.: CM.180 5th November, 1965
Dear Mr. Duesberry,
Your letter of the 31st October, addressed to The
St. John Ambulance Brigade, had been forwarded to us.
Although your spelling of the surname differs to
the spelling on our records and the War Office records,
in view of the other details you have given I have no
doubt that the subject of your enquiry is Pte. John
Dewsbury, 18260, 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters, who
dies on the 15th September 1916.
-
COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISION
32 Grosvenor Gardens, London S.W.I
Telephone: SLOANE 0751
Telegrams: COMMGRAVE LONDON SWI
Ref.: CM.180 5th November, 1965
Dear Mr. Duesberry,
Your letter of the 31st October, addressed to The
St. John Ambulance Brigade, had been forwarded to us.
Although your spelling of the surname differs to
the spelling on our records and the War Office records,
in view of the other details you have given I have no
doubt that the subject of your enquiry is Pte. John
Dewsbury, 18260, 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters, who
dies on the 15th September 1916.
-
COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISION
32 Grosvenor Gardens, London S.W.I
Telephone: SLOANE 0751
Telegrams: COMMGRAVE LONDON SWI
Ref.: CM.180 5th November, 1965
Dear Mr. Duesberry,
Your letter of the 31st October, addressed to The
St. John Ambulance Brigade, had been forwarded to us.
-
COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISION
32 Grosvenor Gardens, London S.W.I
Telephone: SLOANE 0751
Telegrams: COMMGRAVE LONDON SWI
Ref.: CM.180 5th November, 1965
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COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISION
32 Grosvenor Gardens, London S.W.I
Telephone: SLOANE 0751
Telegrams: COMMGRAVE LONDON SWI
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Document location lONDON
- ID
- 17050 / 201585
- Contributor
- Kenneth Duesbery, great nephew of John
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