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Private JOSEPH BURTON

Service Number: 5387460
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 20 May 1940

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BRUYELLE WAR CEMETERY

II. C. 7.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Harry Burton, and of Eliza Burton, of Toll End, Staffordshire.
  • Personal Inscription NOT JUST TODAY BUT EVERY DAY IN SILENCE WE REMEMBER. MOM, BROTHERS AND SISTERS
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Buried or commemorated at

BRUYELLE WAR CEMETERY
Hainaut Belgium
Number of casualties: 147
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