Reading Out Loud
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There are normally three sections of text on the page that you can listen to: the headings, the main text and a selection. Click on 'Speak Headings to speak the page headings (access key 'l'). Click on 'Speak Main Text' (access key 'q') to listen to the main text.
You can also select an area of text in the page using standard select methods and click on 'Speak Selection' (access key 'w') to read the selection aloud.
You can enable the reading out loud of the element that currently has focus by clicking on 'Start Focus Speaking' (access key 'f') and you can stop this by clicking on 'Stop Focus Speaking' (access key 'd').
You can pause the audio by clicking on 'Pause' (access key 'r') and resume by clicking on 'Resume' (access key 't').
To cancel or stop the audio click on 'Cancel' (access key 'y'). To restart the current audio from the beginning, click on 'Restart' (access key 'k').
To hide the accessibility controls click on 'Hide Panel' (access key 'h')
To hide this explanation click on 'Hide Explanation' (access key 'x')
Widecombe-in-the-Moor
Roll of Honour:William Daw
WILLIAM DAW
1879 – 1948
William was born in November 1879 in Widecombe to Nathaniel Daw and Nancy Tremain French. He had two brothers (Thomas and Richard) and four sisters (Elizabeth Ann, Edith, Florence and Annie). The family originally lived at Lower Dunstone (1881 Census) but by 1911 had moved to Buckland-in-the-Moor.
William married Nancy Hern in 1916 but we have not been able to find details of any subsequent family.
It is believed William enlisted in the Army Service Corps in 1916 but no further detail has become available to amplify his armed service.
William and Nancy Daw both died in 1948 within three months of one another and are buried in St Pancras churchyard.
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