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FLETCHER, STANLEY.
Service:  Merchant Navy
Rank:  Assistant Steward
Date of Death:  16 October 1943, age 19
Of 103 Worksop Road, Swallownest, Sheffield.
Died in Tilbury Seaman’s Hospital, Essex.
Remembered in the Second World War Roll of Honour Book in All Saints Church, Aston.


FLOWERS, GEORGE
Rank:  Private
Regiment:  King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 2nd Battalion
Service No. 7644
Date of Death:  22 January 1915
Born in Swallownest
Cemetery:  YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL Link
Grave/Memorial Ref. Panel 22
Remembered on the First World War Memorial in All Saints Church, Aston


FLOWERS, WILLIAM HENRY
Rank:  Private
Regiment:  York and Lancaster Regiment, transf. to (19304)
3rd Company, Labour Corps
Service No. 58276
Date of Death:  15 February 1918, age 42
Son of William and Hannah Flowers, of 202, New Victoria St.,
Mansfield
Cemetery:  MANSFIELD (NOTTINGHAM ROAD) CEMETERY Link
Remembered on the First World War Memorial in All Saints Church, Aston


FOSTER, CHRISTOPHER
Rank:  Company Sergeant Major
Regiment: York and Lancaster Regiment, 1st/5th Battalion
Service No. 240053
Date of Death:  22 April 1917
Son of Elizabeth Foster and the late William Foster of 17 Aughton Road, Swallownest, Sheffield.
Cemetery:  PONT-DU-HEM MILITARY CEMETERY, LA GORGUE, FRANCE Link 
Grave/Memorial Ref.  Grave No.III A 21
Remembered on the First World War Memorial in All Saints Church, Aston


FOSTER, JOHN WILLIAM
Rank: Lance Sergeant
Regiment:  York and Lancaster Regiment, 1st/5th Battalion
Service No.1736
Date of Death:  07 July 1916, age 25
Son of Elizabeth Foster, of 17, Aughton Rd., Swallownest,
Sheffield, and the late William Foster
Cemetery:  THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, FRANCE Link 
Grave/Memorial Ref. Pier and Face 14 A and 14 B
Remembered on the First World War Memorial inAll Saints Church, Aston


FOX, WILLIAM WARD 
Rank:  Driver
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery, “V” 34th Heavy Trench
Mortar Battery
Service No. 23374
Date of Death:  22 August 1917
Born in Pilsley, Chesterfield, enlisted in Chesterfield
Cemetery:  TINCOURT NEW BRITISH CEMETERY Link 
Grave/Memorial Ref. I. D. 13
Remembered on the First World War Memorial in All Saints Church, Aston


FROGGATT, ARTHUR
Rank:  Private.
Regiment:  Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment, 1st/7th Battalion.
Service No. 7/5430.
Date of Death:  18 September 1916, age 23.
Born in Aston, Sheffield.
Only son of Thomas and Caroline Froggatt of 21 North Terrace, Waleswood, Sheffield, formerly of Swallownest.
Private Forggatt was an assistant master in the West Riding Council School and was connected with the Wesleyan Church and Sunday School at Swallownest.
Cemetery:  LONSDALE CEMETERY, AUTHUILLE, FRANCE. Link
Grave/Memorial Ref. VIII.F.5.
Remembered on the War Memorial in St. John the Baptist Church, Wales, Sheffield.


FROGGATT, JOHN WILLIAM 
Rank:  Private
Regiment:  York and Lancaster Regiment, 2nd Battalion
Service No. 24433
Date of Death:  06 July 1916, age 22
Son of John Richard and Jane Froggatt (nee Justice), of 3,
Rothay Rd., Grimesthorpe, Sheffield    Native of Swallownest,
Sheffield
Cemetery:  HEILLY STATION CEMETERY, MERICOURT-L’ABBE, FRANCE Link
Grave/Memorial Ref. I. D. 32.
Remembered in Holy Trinity Church Ulley
Remembered on the First World War Memorial in All Saints Church, Aston.
Remembered on the Memorial in Aston Fence School, Sheffield Road, Fence, near Sheffield


FLETCHER, S
Who died in the Second World War
Remembered in the Second World War Roll of Honour Book in All Saints Church, Aston.