Mystery of orphanage choirboy who was buried a hero in US solved after church note
An orphanage choirboy who hid a letter in a church pew asking not to be forgotten went on to become a US naval hero, it has been revealed.
He stayed in Sunderland Orphanage Asylum for the next six years, and during that time wrote the note, which he left in the church. Research by Seventeen Nineteen, part of the Churches Conservation Trust which runs the former church as an event space, discovered William went to have a remarkable life serving in the US Navy in both world wars.
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