11869 Private William Sass of the 6th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regt, was killed in action on Gallipoli on the 27th November 1915. He was born in Kirkdale, Lancashire and enlisted in Liverpool towards the end of August 1914. His number indicates that he was an original member of the 6th Battalion, the first service battalion to be formed by the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
William arrived in the Balkans on the 15th June 1915 and therefore endured the privations of that desperate front for five months before he was killed; one of 14 Loyal North Lancs men to die on this date. He is buried in Green Hill Cemetery in Turkey.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War
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