16 March 1918 -|- Will England[]
Source: http://www.delaunecc.org/Club_roll_of_hon14-18.htm
_The Grand-Seraucourt British Cemetery France Plot 6 Row I Grave 11
William England was born in 1881 in Lambeth (Surrey) and lived in Brixton (Surrey). In the Great War William England served as Private with service number G/24603 in the 7th Battalion The Queens, formerly 10764 Royal Sussex Regiment.
The 7th Battalion The Queens Regiment were in the vicinity of Varennes on the 16 March 1918. The Battalion history does not make any mention of the actual day and so we must assume it was just another day in the trenches on a tour of duty. Private England was taking the opportunity, after the morning stand to, to have a shave at his dug-out door when a high explosive shell fell near him, killing him and several others near by, instantly.