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Maurice Alfred Alexander Darby

Lieutenant

Service No. Unknown

Age 20

Died on 11 March 1915

Grenadier Guards

LITTLE NESS (ST. MARTIN) CHURCHYARD

Shropshire, United Kingdom

Son of Alfred E. W. and Frederica L. J. Darby, of Adcote, Little Ness, Shrewsbury.

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Barry Carpenter

Thank you to all who lost their lives to save our countries. You will always be remembered.

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R Urquhart

Maurice Darby was killed in action in Neuve Chapelle, Pas de Calais, France in 1915. His body was laid to rest in Little Ness, Shropshire

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To a soldier of the great war. I do not know you but I would have liked to have known you. You were a brother in arms with my paterna...

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For days the body of Lieutenant Maurice Darby, the last male heir of Shropshire's famous Darby dynasty, lay on the battlefield. It was desti...

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