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Pte. William Moffett
British Army 13th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Jarrow
(d.29th Sep 1916)
William Moffett served in A Company, 13th Battalion, the Northumberland Fusiliers and was killed in action age 33 on the 29th September 1916. He is remembered on the Palmer Cenitaph, St. Paul's Church and is buried in Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval. His medal card records the award of the War and Victory Medals also that he was killed in action.
William was born in Jarrow 1882, son of the late Thomas and Elizabeth Moffett of Jarrow. In the 1911 census William is living as a lodger at 25 Bridge Street, Jarrow with the Harrison family. He is 27 and a general labourer in a galvanising factory.