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Private CHRIS NATION

Service Number: 2412
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lancashire Fusiliers

2nd/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 October 1915

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

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B. 25.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 51st (Highland) Div. Cyclist Coy.
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas Nation, of 313, Tottington Rd., Woolfold, Bury.
  • Personal Inscription REST IN PEACE
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Somme France
Number of casualties: 613
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