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Serjeant JOSEPH HOWARD

Service Number: 3524434
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Manchester Regiment

Date of Death

Died 04 June 1940

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE (HURST) CEMETERY

Sec. P. Grave 269.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles and Sarah Anne Howard; husband of Ivy Howard, of Ashton-under-Lyne.
  • Personal Inscription HE LAID HIS RICHEST GIFT HIS BRIGHT YOUNG LIFE ON THE ALTAR OF DUTY
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Buried or commemorated at

ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE (HURST) CEMETERY
Lancashire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 84
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