Roll of Honour of the 710 men of Hyde who fell in WW1
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William HESSNER
Corporal 706435 William HESSNER
33rd Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery (Territorial Force)
Died of Wounds, Saturday 11th August 1917, Belgium, age 18
| Home address: | 246 Birch Lane, Dukinfield, Cheshire |
| Born: | 1899, Manchester, Lancashire |
| Parents: | Emma Hessner and William A. Hessner 246 Birch Lane, Dukinfield, Cheshire |
| Marital status: | Single |
| Occupation: | School pupil |
| Enlisted: | Manchester, Lancashire |
| Remembered: | Adinkerke Military Cemetery, Furnes, De Panne, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, row C, grave 9. |
| Link to Hyde: | Born in Hyde |
His paternal grandparents Christian and Marie Höessner had emigrated from Germany to Bradford, Yorkshire, in the 1870s.