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Corporal Sydney Ewart Cannon

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Sydney was born in 1885 to John Thomas and Eliza. He was living at 6 Crawley Green Road in 1911 with his mother, a straw hat machinist, four sisters, Olive, a milliner aged 19, Doris 12, Marjorie 10, Elsie 7 and his 4 year old brother Leslie. Sydney was working in the hat factory warehouse. He had attended Luton Grammar School & is remembered on the Roll Of Honour plaque found at Stockwood Park.

Private Arthur Ernest Hollard Hitchcock

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Arthur was born in 1883 in Luton to Edwin and Mary Elizabeth Hitchcock.

In 1911 Arthur was living at 74 Lea Road with his 69 year old widowed mother and his 36 year old unmarried sister Mary Elizabeth Ann. His sister was a straw hat finisher and Arthur was working as a whitesmith at an ironmongers.

Whilst serving in the Royal Army Service Corps in Flanders he caught TB and was discharged from active service and sent home.

 

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