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Private JOHN RAWES

Service Number: S/2890
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Seaforth Highlanders

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 17 December 1915

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

VI. A. 14A.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and M. E. Rawes, of 80, Grasmere Rd., Lancaster. Also wounded at the Battle of Loos.
  • Personal Inscription HOME AT LAST THY LABOUR DONE SAFE AND BLEST THE VICTORY WON
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Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 11554
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