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DAY, JOHN ERNEST
Rank:  Private
Regiment:  Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), 172nd Company
Service No. 58275
Date of Death:  26 February 1917. Age 23
Son of John and Sarah Ann Day, of 11, School St., Swallownest, Sheffield
Born in Macclesfield
BREWERY ORCHARD CEMETERY, BOIS-GRENIER, FRANCE Link
Grave/Memorial Ref. IV. F. 5
Remembered on the First World War Memorial in All Saints Church, Aston


DENTON, CHARLES
Rank:  Private
Regiment:  East Yorkshire Regiment, 1st/4th Battalion
Service No.12029
Date of Death: 28 September 1918, age 26
Husband of Margaretta Denton, of 66 Belmore Road, Woodhouse, Sheffield
SOISSONS MEMORIAL, FRANCE Link
Memorial Reference:  Addenda Panel
Remembered on the Woodhouse Mill First World War Memorial


DEWICK, ARCHIE
Rank:  Private
Regiment:  Coldstream Guards, 3rd Battalion.
Service No. 17144.
Date of death:  09 October 1917
Born in Swallownest, Sheffield.
Living at 8 Birch Road, Attercliffe, Sheffield.
Cemetery:  RUISSEAU FARM CEMETERY, WEST-VLAANDEREN, BELGIUM Link
Memorial Reference:  C.43
Not remembered on a local war memorial.


DUNN, HARRY.
Service:  Royal Navy
Rank:  Acting Petty Officer on Submarine “Sterlet”
Service No. C/JX 129256
Date of Death:  18 April 1940
Of 4 Aston Terrace, Swallownest.
Four days after sinking the “Brummer”, “Sterlet” was presumed sunk in the Skagerrak by German anti-submarine trawlers.
CEMETERY:  CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL, KENT.Link
Remembered in the Second World War Roll of Honour Book in All Saints Church, Aston.


DYER, HERBERT
Rank:  Private
Regiment:  Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line
(incl. Yeomanry and Imperial Camel Corps).
Battalion:  1st/1st Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers)
Service No. 275305
Date of Death:  16 September 1917, age 25
Son of Mary Ann Dyer, of 2, Cambridge Place, Scarborough
Born in Aston
Cemetery:  KANTARA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY, EGYPT Link
Grave/Memorial Reference A. 150
Remembered on the First World War Memorial in All Saints Church, Aston