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Pte. William Burnell Willis
British Army 2nd Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:London
During research of our family tree, and through relatives paperwork, I have come across the enclosed letter, evidently sent from a military base in France, undated but from referencing its around 1914-6. It was within my grandfather's paperwork, he would indeed have been a nephew of the sender. My grandfather's own father died in 1916 and his ill health is referred to within, as are references to his 2 sisters.
As yet I have yet to verify if William Willis survived the war but a couple of instances do appear to point to not surviving. The address on the letter is quite specific but I have also not tied this up. I lose track of our William Burnell Willis around 1901, but a 1911 census has a William marrying a Charlotte with a number of children who share prior family names.
My Grandfather the recipient of the letter is William Percival Hollister, documents show he was an Air raid warden in London as well as subsequent long standing School Caretaker at Stamford Hill School, Tottenham, where he, his wife and my father lived in the 1940/50s.
