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Cpl. Joseph Stendall
British Army 2nd/8th Btn. Sherwood Foresters
from:Sutton in Ashfield
(d.27th Apr 1917)
My Great Uncle Joseph Stendall served with the 2/8th Notts and Derbys
Regiment. The Free Press shows that he enlisted in January 1915, trained at Watford and served in Dublin during the Irish Rebellion.
He went to France in February 1917. He was a Lewis Gunner with No.10 Platoon. Killed in Action when in the attack near Hargicourt, France, he had reached the German wire and was doing great work when he was shot. He had been recommended for the French Croix De Guerre.
Prior to enlisting he worked for S. Eden and Sons at The Hermitage, Mansfield.