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Private R KIRBY

Service Number: 121984
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

12th Coy.

Date of Death

Died 11 March 1918

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CROIX-DU-BAC BRITISH CEMETERY, STEENWERCK

I. F. 7.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Richard and Elizabeth Kirby, of Mill House Inn, Rainford, St. Helens, Lancs.
  • Personal Inscription ON WHOSE SOUL SWEET JESUS HAVE MERCY
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Buried or commemorated at

CROIX-DU-BAC BRITISH CEMETERY, STEENWERCK
Nord France
Number of casualties: 556
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