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Corporal SYDNEY EWBANK SPEED

Service Number: 1968
Regiment & Unit/Ship

London Regiment (London Irish Rifles)

"C" Coy. 1st/18th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 28 October 1915

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PHILOSOPHE BRITISH CEMETERY, MAZINGARBE

IV. N. 15.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Walter and Sarah Ann Speed, of Sittingbourne; Kent.
  • Personal Inscription LIVE THOU FOR ENGLAND WE FOR ENGLAND DIED
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Buried or commemorated at

PHILOSOPHE BRITISH CEMETERY, MAZINGARBE
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 2001
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