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Lance Corporal JOHN RICHARD BIRLEY

Service Number: 12549
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

9th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 05 October 1917

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CEMENT HOUSE CEMETERY

IV. B. 4.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George Richard and Leah Birley, of 16, Inkersall Rd., Staveley, Chesterfield.
  • Personal Inscription THY WILL BE DONE
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Buried or commemorated at

CEMENT HOUSE CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 3615
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