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Private JOHN BLACK

Service Number: 45322
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South Staffordshire Regiment

2nd/6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 March 1918

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

H.A.C. CEMETERY, ECOUST-ST. MEIN

VIII. B. 39.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the late John Black,and his wife (now Mrs. Ferguson) of Bridge St., Haddington, East Lothian; husband of Mary Reynolds.
  • Personal Inscription ALTHOUGH THE SEA DIVIDES THE SPOT WHERE MY DEAR FATHER LIES ASLEEP
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Buried or commemorated at

H.A.C. CEMETERY, ECOUST-ST. MEIN
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 1921
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