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Serjeant JOSEPH STANFORD

Service Number: 2322422
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Corps of Signals

Date of Death

Died 30 July 1942

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HABBANIYA WAR CEMETERY

2. G. 5.

Iraq

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Margaret Ann Sykes, of Mossley, Manchester.
  • Personal Inscription IN GOD'S GARDEN YOU REST ABOVE, BUT IN OUR HEARTS YOU DWELL WITH LOVE
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Buried or commemorated at

HABBANIYA WAR CEMETERY
Iraq
Number of casualties: 290
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