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Private JOHN ELSBY

Service Number: 39928
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lancashire Fusiliers

10th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 26 November 1917

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DOZINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY

XIII. E. 23.

Belgium

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 52nd Coy. Machine Gun Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Harriett Elsby, of 19, East Elworth, nr. Sandbach, Cheshire.
  • Personal Inscription THOUGH DEATH DIVIDES FOND MEMORY CLINGS
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Buried or commemorated at

DOZINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 3312
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