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Private JOSEPH WILLIAM PINKNEY

Service Number: 242841
Regiment & Unit/Ship

West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)

1st/6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 10 August 1918

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TOURGEVILLE MILITARY CEMETERY

IV. B. 13.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment transf. to (421394) 90th Coy. Labour Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Mary Wilkinson, of Rose St., Trimdon Grange, Co. Durham.
  • Personal Inscription HE ANSWERED HIS COUNTRY'S CALL MISSED MOST BY THOSE WHO LOVED HIM BEST
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Buried or commemorated at

TOURGEVILLE MILITARY CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 315
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