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Lance Serjeant JOHN HENRY SHAKESPEARE

Service Number: 6613
Regiment & Unit/Ship

East Lancashire Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 03 January 1915

Age 43 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LANCASHIRE COTTAGE CEMETERY

I. D. 2.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Jabous and Phebie Shakespeare, of Deepfields, Bilston, Staffs.; husband of Susannah Shakespeare, of 254, Bolton Rd., Small Heath, Birmingham.
  • Personal Inscription IN GOD'S KEEPING TILL WE MEET AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

LANCASHIRE COTTAGE CEMETERY
Hainaut Belgium
Number of casualties: 269
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