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Pte. William Thomas Norman
British Army 2nd Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment
from:High Green, Sheffield.
(d.3rd Oct 1917)
William Norman was born in the mining village of Tankersley, Barnsley in 1881.
The son of Thomas and Bertha Norman, he was the eldest of 6 children.
He married his wife Harriet in 1906 and they had 3 children.
William was 33 years old when he joined up and served in the 2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment to fight in the first world war.
William died from gun shot wounds on the 3rd of October 1917, he is buried in Noeux-Les-Mines Communal Cemetery Extension in France.