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Lance Corporal FRANCIS O'ROURKE

Service Number: 8229
Regiment & Unit/Ship

West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 10 October 1916

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VERMELLES BRITISH CEMETERY

V. E. 21.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Terence and Catherine O'Rourke. Awarded the Royal Humane Society's Bronze Medal for life saving in Malta, 1913.
  • Personal Inscription WHO DIES IF ENGLAND LIVES
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Buried or commemorated at

VERMELLES BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 2145
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