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Serjeant HENRY HORNEY ECCLESTON

Service Number: 3386621
Regiment & Unit/Ship

East Lancashire Regiment

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 11 September 1940

Buried or commemorated at

BLACKBURN CEMETERY

Sec. YY. C. of E. Grave 3305.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Fred Richmond Eccleston and Margaret Eccleston, of Blackburn.
  • Personal Inscription IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH
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Buried or commemorated at

BLACKBURN CEMETERY
Lancashire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 268
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