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Private LANCELOT BROOKSBANK

Service Number: 8005
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Guards Machine Gun Regiment

4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 02 November 1918

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RUESNES COMMUNAL CEMETERY

II. A. 4.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Jessie Brooksbank, of 17, Sixth St. North, Easington Colliery, Co. Durham.
  • Personal Inscription HIS LIVING TESTIMONY "FOR TO ME TO LIVE IS CHRIST AND TO DIE IS GAIN"
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Buried or commemorated at

RUESNES COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Nord France
Number of casualties: 87
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