Lance Sergeant Archie Cross (270064, Royal Warwickshire Regiment)

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Date:7th of October 1916

Description:Reported missing in the Weekly Mercury of 7th October 1916. He had at that time been missing since 1st July and his mother Mrs Cross of 4 Back 85 Irving Street was desperate for news of him.

Sadly, it turned out that Cross was eventually reported as having died on 1st of July. He was in the 1st/6th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment and was 22. His parents were Edwin and Mary Cross. Cross was one of the large number of men who served in the First World War but did not return.

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World War One Military Service Irving Street Edgbaston 1914 - 1919 (World War I)

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