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Private Willie Bray

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Private Willie Bray Veteran

Birth
Lindley, Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England
Death
31 May 1916 (aged 25)
Salisbury, Wiltshire Unitary Authority, Wiltshire, England
Burial
Lindley, Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England Add to Map
Plot
Screen Wall.
Memorial ID
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Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922
The following extract is from Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922 (2014) by J. Margaret Stansfield:

BRAY, WILLIE. Private. No 5485. 2/5th Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment. Born Lindley 12.9.1890. Son of Fred Bottom and Ann Bray, 14 Lidget Street, Lindley. Educated at Lindley Church Schools. Employed as a cloth warehouseman. Enlisted 20.3.1916. Died at Fargo Hospital, Salisbury Plain, of thrombosis. 31.05.1916.

Brother of Private James Arthur Bray, who died in Jerusalem, 8.11.1918, q.v.).

Buried with full military honours in LINDLEY (ZION) METHODIST CHAPEL YARD.
Grave location:- in south-east part.
ROH:- Lindley Zion Methodist Chapel; St. Stephen's Church, Lindley;
Huddersfield Drill Hall.

Alternative Commemoration Edgerton Cemetery here
- buried in Lindley (Zion) Methodist Chapelyard.
Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922
The following extract is from Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922 (2014) by J. Margaret Stansfield:

BRAY, WILLIE. Private. No 5485. 2/5th Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment. Born Lindley 12.9.1890. Son of Fred Bottom and Ann Bray, 14 Lidget Street, Lindley. Educated at Lindley Church Schools. Employed as a cloth warehouseman. Enlisted 20.3.1916. Died at Fargo Hospital, Salisbury Plain, of thrombosis. 31.05.1916.

Brother of Private James Arthur Bray, who died in Jerusalem, 8.11.1918, q.v.).

Buried with full military honours in LINDLEY (ZION) METHODIST CHAPEL YARD.
Grave location:- in south-east part.
ROH:- Lindley Zion Methodist Chapel; St. Stephen's Church, Lindley;
Huddersfield Drill Hall.

Alternative Commemoration Edgerton Cemetery here
- buried in Lindley (Zion) Methodist Chapelyard.

Inscription

Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)

Gravesite Details

5485


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