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Serjeant MATTHEW PAYNTER

Service Number: 428228
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

2nd/2nd (West Lancs.) Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 04 June 1917

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOP STORE CEMETERY

Plot I. Row A. Grave 31.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Mary Paynter, of 72, Greenfield Rd., St. Helens, Lancs, and husband of Mary Jane Paynter, of 94, Brynn St., St. Helens, Lancs.
  • Personal Inscription HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE.
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Buried or commemorated at

HOP STORE CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 249
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