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Gunner JOSEPH SHORROCK

Service Number: 8994
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Field Artillery

"D" Bty. 150th Bde.

Date of Death

Died 12 August 1917

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

POTIJZE CHATEAU GROUNDS CEMETERY

I. B. 6.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Mary Ann Shorrock, of 1 Plymouth St., Blackburn.
  • Personal Inscription NOBLY DID HIS DUTY
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Buried or commemorated at

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