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Corporal JAMES ANTHONY HANCOCK

Service Number: 648598
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

Date of Death

Died 22 December 1941

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GRANTHAM CEMETERY

Sec. 17. Row M. Grave 9.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James Arthur and Florence Beatrice Hancock; husband of Elsie Hancock, of Blackburn, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription HIS LIFE WAS AN EMBLEM OF LOVE AND DEVOTION, HIS DEATH AN UNSPEAKABLE SORROW
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Buried or commemorated at

GRANTHAM CEMETERY
Lincolnshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 118
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