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Private GEORGE RICHARD HOWARTH

Service Number: 17843
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 15 December 1915

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

POTIJZE CHATEAU LAWN CEMETERY

B. 7.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Esther Howarth, of 129, Duke Brow, Blackburn.
  • Personal Inscription HE IS NOT DEAD BUT SLEEPETH
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Buried or commemorated at

POTIJZE CHATEAU LAWN CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 229
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