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Lance Corporal SYDNEY LIGHTFOOT

Service Number: 4448
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 26 April 1918

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY, CROUY-SUR-SOMME

I. B. 22.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Elijah and Maria Lightfoot; husband of Beatrice Annie Lightfoot, of Burrows Farm, High Rd., Grantham, Lincs.
  • Personal Inscription FROM SORROWING WIFE & CHILD GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
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Buried or commemorated at

CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY, CROUY-SUR-SOMME
Somme France
Number of casualties: 783
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