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WILLIAM AMES
10873 PRIVATE, 5
TH
BATTALION, DORSETSHIRE
REGIMENT
BORN 1895
BERE REGIS
FAMILY DETAILS 1901 CENSUS
Aged 6, living at Skippets with his father, Philip (34), a carter on the farm, mother Elizabeth (36), his sister Annie (15),and his brothers, Samuel (13), Percy (11), Bertie (8) and Reginald (10) months
At the time of his death, his widowed mother was living at 72
West Street
DATE & CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH
14 OCTOBER 1916
Died of wounds, probably sustained during the 5 th Bn Dorsetshire
Regiment’s action at Mouquet Farm, south of Thiepval, during the Battle of the Somme. He previously served with the 5 th Bn in
Gallipoli.
BURIED IN CONTAY WAR CEMETERY
Contay is a village on the main road, Amiens to Arras. The site was chosen in August 1916 for burials from the 49th Casualty
Clearing Station, which arrived at Contay at the end of August
1916. It was joined by the 9th CCS in September 1916. Contay
British Cemetery contains 1,133 First World War burials.
AGE AT DEATH
21 years
