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Lance Corporal JOSEPH RAINSFORTH

Service Number: 6493
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Royal Rifle Corps

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 September 1914

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BOIS-GUILLAUME COMMUNAL CEMETERY

I. A. 19.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Arthur and Elizabeth Rainsforth. Born at Hunslet, Leeds.
  • Personal Inscription HE'S GONE, THE ONE WE LOVED SO DEAR TO HIS ETERNAL REST.
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