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Corporal JOHN WILLIAM SANDFORD

Service Number: 1770
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South Lancashire Regiment

1st/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 30 May 1916

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BELLACOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, RIVIERE

I. E. 1.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Richard and Martha Sandford, of St. Helens, Lancs; husband of Mrs. Alice Hutchinson (formerly Sandford), of 14, Talbot St., St. Helens.
  • Personal Inscription FOR HONOUR LIBERTY & TRUTH HE SACRIFICED HIS GLORIOUS YOUTH
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Buried or commemorated at

BELLACOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, RIVIERE
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 549
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