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Gunner LIONEL HENRY ROOKE

Service Number: 77685
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Garrison Artillery

223rd Siege Bty.

Date of Death

Died 31 July 1917

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TRACK X CEMETERY

E. 8.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas Thorpe Rooke and Fanny Rooke, of 29, Field Lane, Batley, Yorks. Native of Ossett, Yorks.
  • Personal Inscription NEARER MY GOD TO THEE
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Buried or commemorated at

TRACK X CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 150
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