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Batchelor, W.F., L/Cpl., 1917
In Hargicourt British Cemetery, Aisne, France, is the Commonwealth War Grave of 21/338 Lance Corporal William Francis Batchelor, serving with the 21st (Tyneside Scottish) Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers, attached Trench Mortar Battery, who died 23/09/1917.

Morpeth Herald 26/10/1917 carries brief obituary:

ROLL OF HONOUR

BATCHELOR.- Killed in action on September 23rd, 1917, aged 27 years, Lance-Corporal W.F. Batchelor, N.F., son-in-law of Mr and Mrs Robert Dott, 33 Doctor Terrace, Bedlington.- Deeply mourned by his father and mother-in-law, brothers and sisters-in-law, and his three little children, Ada, Peggy and Nancy.

William Francis Batchelor is remembered in at Bedlington as Frank Batchelor on B15.01 and as Batchelor, W.F. on B15.02 and B15.06


The CWGC entry for Lance Corporal Batchelor

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