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Sapper EDWIN EDMONDSON HANCOCKS

Service Number: 160668
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Flying Corps

Date of Death

Died 31 January 1917

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BOIS-GUILLAUME COMMUNAL CEMETERY

II. C. 18A.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment and Royal Engineers
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edwin and Harriet Hancocks, of Tedsmore, Salop.
  • Personal Inscription TO LIVE IN HEARTS, WE LEAVE BEHIND, IS NOT TO DIE.
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Buried or commemorated at

BOIS-GUILLAUME COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Seine-Maritime France
Number of casualties: 320
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