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Fusilier JOSEPH MICHAEL FORKIN

Service Number: 406165
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lancashire Fusiliers

11th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 16 October 1944

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FAENZA WAR CEMETERY

I. C. 2.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Thomas Herbert Forkin and Annie Forkin; husband of Ruby May Forkin, of Swindon, Wiltshire.
  • Personal Inscription ON WHOSE SOUL SWEET JESUS HAVE MERCY OUR LADY OF LOURDES PRAY FOR HIM. R.I.P.
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Buried or commemorated at

FAENZA WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1152
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