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Lance Corporal FRANCIS TORBET

Service Number: 277191
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Manchester Regiment

2nd/7th Bn

Date of Death

Died 17 August 1917

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COXYDE MILITARY CEMETERY

II. J. 23.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Francis and Jane Torbet; husband of Ethel Torbet, of Eirianfron, Llangoed, Beaumaris, Anglesey.
  • Personal Inscription HE LIVED MIGHTILY & DIED NOBLY SEMPER FIDELIS ETHEL
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Buried or commemorated at

COXYDE MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1673
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