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Name:

Fenwick OSWALD

Casualty No.:

283a

Ranks:

Private

Initials:

Service No.:

26/523

Date of Birth :

Place of Birth :

Prudhoe, Northumberland.

Age at Death:

Unit:

A Company, 26th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers (3rd Tyneside Irish).

Former Unit(s):

Place Enlisted:

Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.

Place of Residence:

Chopwell, Co. Durham.

Home Address:

7 William Street, Chopwell, Co. Durham.

Previous Address:

Civilian Employment:

How Died:

Date of Death:

Saturday 1st July 1916

Place of Death:

Somme, France.

Battle/Campaign:

Battles of the Somme, France, 1916.

Locally Commemorated:

UK Commemorated:

Overseas Commemorated:

Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

Buried:

No known grave.

Decoration and Medals:

Photographs:

Service Records:

Death Notice/Obituary:

Family Details:

Son of William and Jane Oswald of Crawcrook (formerly of Mickley, Northumberland), Ryton on Tyne, Co. Durham.

Notes :

The 1914 Electoral Rolls for Crawcrook, state: William Oswald: dwelling house (successive) Chopwell and Rookhope House.

Sources Used:

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt of Honour Register. Soldiers Died in the Great War.

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