Norman Voutt (c.1887-1918)

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Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922

The following extract is from Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922 (2014) by J. Margaret Stansfield:

VOUTT, NORMAN. Private. No 52646. 1st Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment. Formerly No 268821 Duke of Wellington's Regiment. Born Marsden, Huddersfield. Married. Lived 15 Chapel Street, Slaithwaite. Attended Holthead General Sunday School, where he was a teacher for many years. Employed at Messrs Brook's dyeworks, Slaithwaite. Enlisted June 1917. Embarked for France in November, 1917. Was out with a working party when he was hit by a piece of shell on 14.2.1918 and death was instantenous. He was 30 years of age. Buried FAVREUIL BRITISH CEMETERY. Grave location:- Plot 2, Row E, Grave 11.
ROH:- St. James' Church, Slaithwaite; Slaithwaite War Memorial.

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