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Driver JAMES WILFRED BURTON

Service Number: 2016326
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

107 Army Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 14 June 1942

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MANCHESTER SOUTHERN CEMETERY

Sec. I. R.C. Grave 1469.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Edith Burton, of Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Manchester; husband of Ellen Burton, of Chorlton-upon-Medlock.
  • Personal Inscription R.I.P.
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Buried or commemorated at

MANCHESTER SOUTHERN CEMETERY
Lancashire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 1270
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