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Corporal JOHN NORRIS

Service Number: Z/2233
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Rifle Brigade

10th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 12 May 1917

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SAINS-LES-MARQUION BRITISH CEMETERY

II. E. 19.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Frederick Watson Norris and Martha Ann Norris, of 13, Howey Hill, Congleton, Cheshire.
  • Personal Inscription HIS MOTTO FOR 1917 "LIVE PURE, SPEAK TRUE RIGHT WRONG" THY WILL BE DONE
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Buried or commemorated at

SAINS-LES-MARQUION BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 255
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