HOLLINGSWORTH, WILLIAM HENRY

 

Source

CWGC

SDGW

Uttoxeter Advertiser

Other

Parents

Late John and Mary Hollingsworth

Yes

 

 

6

Where born

Marchington, Staffordshire

 

Yes

 

 

When born

About 1895

 

 

 

3

Address

Parents: Gorsty Hill, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire

Yes

 

 

6

Uttoxeter

 

Yes

 

 

Spouse

 

 

 

 

 

Children

 

 

 

 

 

Employment Before Joining up

 

 

 

 

 

Where enlisted

Uttoxeter

 

Yes

 

 

Regiment

West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own)

Yes

Yes

 

6

Formerly 6774, North Staffordshire Regiment

 

Yes

 

 

Unit

12th Bn

Yes

Yes

 

 

12th (S) Bn

 

 

 

6

Former Service

6774, North Staffordshire Regiment

 

Yes

 

 

Rank

Lance Corporal

Yes

 

 

6

Service Number

40664

Yes

Yes

 

6

Date of Death

3 May 1917

Yes

Yes

 

6

Age at time of death

22

Yes

 

 

 

Where Killed or died

Pas de Calais – Arras area

 

 

 

 

France/Flanders

 

Yes

 

 

How he died

Killed in Action

 

Yes

 

6

Location of Grave or Memorial

Arras Memorial for the Missing

Bay 4

Yes

 

 

4

 

Thomas Alleynes School War Memorial, Uttoxeter

 

 

 

4

Marchington Woodlands Church War Memorial

 

 

 

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Awards

 

 

 

 

 

 

His parents were the late John and Mary Hollingsworth, of Gorsty Hill, Uttoxeter.

William attended Thomas Alleyne’s School in Uttoxeter, as witnessed by the school war memorial

The school’s war memorial

 

William initially served as 6774 in the North Staffordshire Regiment5.

He went missing in action on 3rd May 1917, and was officially reported Killed in Action in April 19186

He has no known grave and his name is recorded on a panel in the Arras Memorial

The Arras Memorial

 

He is also commemorated on the War Memorial on the lych gate of Marchington Woodlands St John Church