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Private JOHN HANCOX

Service Number: 4978519
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

2/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 27 May 1940

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OIGNIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Row B. Grave 5.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Isaac and Constance M. Hancox, of Dinnington, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription EVERY DAY IN SOME LITTLE WAY, WE REMEMBER
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Buried or commemorated at

OIGNIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 20
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