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{{Personnel
|id=1106
|Surname and forenames=Poskett William
|Army number=4454687
|Rank=Private.
|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date as yet, but his number suggests early 1939.  Posted to the ?9th Battalion.  Posted to the ? 12th Battalion - probably 1/9/1939.  Transferred to the Black Watch and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish 1/2/40.   Served in Northern France with the B.E.F. ?  Served Iceland?  Transferred to the Seaforth Highlanders 14/8/1941, and posted to the 8th Holding Battalion 24/8/41, Auth: Part II Order 8th Bn/79/41.  Transferred back to the Black Watch 7/3/42, Part II Order TS 20/42, and re-posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish.  Served Normandy.  Posted to the 5th Battalion Black Watch on the disbandment of 1st Tyneside Scottish.  Wounded.  Relegated to the Class Z Army Res 3/8/46.  Discharged from the Reserve   11/11/48, on Re-enlisting in the Royal Eengineers TA 12/11/48 as 22236500.
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
|Date of birth=Not yet known.
|Age=(At the time of his death).  Not yet known.
|Company/Battery=Company not yet known.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Not known but probably Rifleman.
|Joined Brigade=Probably 1/9/1939.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Yes - reported wounded N W Europe 11/9/1944 while serving with the 5th Black Watch.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Date of death not yet known.
|Home address=55, Abbot St. Gateshead
|Source table=1TS
}}