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Gunner JOSEPH FINNERTY

Service Number: 1460134
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

Date of Death

Died 10 May 1940

Buried or commemorated at

BURNLEY CEMETERY

Grave A. 16782.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Emma Finnerty; husband of Julia Finnerty, of Burnley.
  • Personal Inscription WEEP NOT, DEAR WIFE FOR I WAS ONLY TO YOU LENT: IN LOVE WE LIVED, IN PEACE I DIED
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Buried or commemorated at

BURNLEY CEMETERY
Lancashire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 283
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