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Private JAMES HOWARD ASHTON

Service Number: 52760
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lancashire Fusiliers

1st/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 20 June 1918

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BERTRANCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY

Plot 2. Row C. Grave 4.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Daniel and Hannah Ashton, of Ashton-under-Lyne.
  • Personal Inscription TOO DEARLY LOVED EVER TO BE FORGOTTEN
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Buried or commemorated at

BERTRANCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 419
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