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Serjeant CECIL SHELTON

Service Number: SD/1649
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Sussex Regiment

12th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 31 July 1917

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BUFFS ROAD CEMETERY

C. 4.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert and Sarah Shelton (nee Sharpe). Native of Upper Broughton Lodge, Leicestershire.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS
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Buried or commemorated at

BUFFS ROAD CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 289
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