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Steve Chettle
I have found all bar two of thems deaths -
Graham - 1983
Munro - 1992
Ashton - 1989
Davies - 1978
Surtees - 1992
Trim - 1997
Perry - ?
Clark - 1994
Maund - ?
Pritty - 1996

So, at least 8 of the ten, and possibly all of them.

Edit: Maund died in 1994.
Perry died in 1942 in the seige of Tobruk where he was a driver in the Royal Army Service Corps according to
Wikipedia

So in answer to the question, 9 of the 10 survived the war.
Excellent, both in the research and the result.
 

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Stuart Pearce
I have found three others on Forest's books who had died by the time that Perry died.

They appear to be players that at that point hadn't been heavily involved in the first team. They were

Ashley Kenneth Hunt (Ken)
Samuel Grenville Roberts (Grenville)
Samuel Bernard Northern (Bernard)
 

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Jack Armstrong
Here’s Colin Perry, killed in Tobruck in ‘42 aged 26.

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Stuart Pearce
Ashley Kenneth Hunt was in the army but died at Holme Peirrpoint. He was found with a rifle in his lap but it wasn't clear how the gun was discharged according to reports. :(
 

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Stuart Pearce
(The People, Sunday, January 15, 1939)

Long Acre Tells You About…

…WHERE there wasn’t any frost and ice there was fog - and loads of it. The Nottingham Forest players found most of it. They were due at Tottenham, but ten minutes before the kick-off there was no sign at all of the Foresters. They were held up in the fog. As soon as they reached London, the Nottingham men jumped into taxis and changed on the way, and they did the job so slickly that the match began no more than five minutes late.
 
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