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Private JOSEPH ROCHESTER

Service Number: 30752
Regiment & Unit/Ship

East Lancashire Regiment

2nd/4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 November 1917

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

POTIJZE CHATEAU GROUNDS CEMETERY

I. D. 14.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Native of Dinnington, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Son of William James and Margaret Rochester, of Milkhope Cottages, Dudley, Northumberland.
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Buried or commemorated at

POTIJZE CHATEAU GROUNDS CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 478
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