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Private JOHN BRIGGS

Service Number: 4803
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lincolnshire Regiment

1st/4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 26 June 1916

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WARLINCOURT HALTE BRITISH CEMETERY, SAULTY

II. D. 15.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Briggs, of Ropsley, Grantham, Lincs; husband of Millicent Briggs, Saxilby, Lincoln, late of Thorney, Newark, Notts.
  • Personal Inscription HE SACRIFICED ALL FOR KING AND COUNTRY GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS
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Buried or commemorated at

WARLINCOURT HALTE BRITISH CEMETERY, SAULTY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 1296
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