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Private JOSEPH SHIRT

Service Number: 75262
Regiment & Unit/Ship

The King's (Liverpool Regiment)

26th Inf. Labour Coy.

Date of Death

Died 26 July 1918

Buried or commemorated at

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY

XX. G. 21A.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment transf. to (54466) 91st Coy. Labour Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Amelia Shirt, of 26, Spencer St., Royton, Oldham.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED FOR OUR FREEDOM
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Buried or commemorated at

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 10786
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