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Guardsman HORACE SYDNEY MURCOTT

Service Number: 2657897
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Coldstream Guards

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 31 May 1940

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DE PANNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Plot 2. Row B. Grave 16.

Belgium

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. Corps of Military Police
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Richard Frederick and Edith Louisa Murcott, of Chase Terrace, Staffordshire.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE THAT WE MIGHT LIVE R.I.P.
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Buried or commemorated at

DE PANNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 283
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