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Fusilier WALTER G. HORNBY

Service Number: 3525780
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lancashire Fusiliers

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 26 May 1940

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HALLUIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Row D. Grave 8.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Jim and Mary Hornby, of Wallgate, Wigan, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription WITH TENDER LOVE AND DEEP REGRET, WE WHO LOVED HIM WILL NEVER FORGET
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Buried or commemorated at

HALLUIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Nord France
Number of casualties: 43
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