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PONTELAND

Battensby, S., L/Cpl., 1917

Tyne Cot Memorial

Tyne Cot Memorial: Pauline Priano

On the Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium is the name of 19/1213 Lance Corporal Samuel Battensby, serving with the 19th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, who died 31/10/1917.

His story is told in: Sobo, M.E., We Will Remember Them: The story of the men on the Ponteland War Memorial, Ponteland Parish Council, 2005 No ISBN, page 17.

He is remembered in Ponteland on P12.08 and P12.10

He is also remembered in The Battalion History


The CWGC entry for Private Battensby

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