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FERRYHILL

Sawyer, J.H., L/Cpl., 1916

Photo: Dorothy Hall

In Daours Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France, is the Commonwealth War Grave of 18409 Lance Corporal James Herbert Sawyer serving with the 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment who died 03/07/1916.

In Duncombe Cemetery Ferryhill is a family headstone which reads:-

In loving memory of
William Sawyer
died 9th Feb. 1944
aged 81 years
also his wife
Mary Elizabeth
died 2nd Oct. 1918
aged 49 years
Also L/C James Herbert
died of wounds in France
3rd July 1916 aged 26 years

At Rest

James Herbert Sawyer is remembered at Ferryhill on F38.02


The CWGC entry for Lance Corporal Sawyer

If you know more about this person, please send the details to janet@newmp.org.uk

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