On this day 21st October 1917

The battalion were holding the front line trenches in the HILL 70 sector.

3752/241204 Pte John William Daws died of his wounds at the 33 Casualty Clearing Station and is buried in Bethune Town Cemetery.

John was 38 years old and a resident of Bulwell in Nottingham. He enlisted in Chesterfield in January 1915 and left a widow.

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