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Private JOSEPH GREENWOOD BANCROFT

Service Number: 2713
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)

1st/6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 22 October 1915

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TALANA FARM CEMETERY

IV. C. 19.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph Greenwood Bancroft and Mary Ann Bancroft, of Sutton-in Craven, Keighley.
  • Personal Inscription TO LIVE IN HEARTS WE LEAVE BEHIND IS NOT TO DIE
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Buried or commemorated at

TALANA FARM CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 531
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