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Personal data

• Name MAYHEW
• Initials W
• First name WILLIAM
• Place of birth Starston
• Country Norfolk, England
• Last residence Laxfield, Suffolk
• Family Son of Alfred George (stockman on a farm) and Maria Edwards; ; five brothers: George (1883), Daniel (1885), Harry James (1890), Alfred James (1894) and Frederick George (1899). Four sisters: Kate Maud (1889), Gertrude (1892), Lily Louisa (1898) and Florence Emma (1900). His father remarried in 1897, after the death of Maria. Husband of Sally Louisa Wright; two children, Myrtle Mabel (1909) and Olive Louisa (1910)
• Profession Groom/gardener
• Extra info Commemorated on Suffolk’s Roll of Honour and Laxfield war memorial

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Ipswich
• Service number 16806
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 2nd Bn. Suffolk Regiment
• Division - Brigade 8th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 3rd Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career To France 27 April 1915

Death

• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds to the right thigh, n°17 CCS
• Date of death 6 September 1915
• Died at the age of 28
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery III - B - 31A

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