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Sapper JOSEPH EDWARD BIRTWISTLE

Service Number: 29394
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

2nd Army H.Q. Wireless Coy.

Date of Death

Died 09 April 1917

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD

III. B. 79.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alice Birtwistle, of 10, Holker St., Keighley, Yorks, and the late William Birtwistle; husband of the late Martha Hannah Birtwistle.
  • Personal Inscription GONE TO SING IN HEAVEN ONE OF THE BEST MOTHER
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