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Private JOSEPH HORTON

Service Number: 5114067
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Warwickshire Regiment

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 28 May 1940

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAS-WARNETON (NEERWAASTEN) COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Grave 20.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Agnes Ruth Horton, of Northfield, Birmingham.
  • Personal Inscription THOUGH FAR FROM HOME, YET EVER NEAR TO THOSE WHO LOVE YOU SO, JOE DEAR
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Buried or commemorated at

BAS-WARNETON (NEERWAASTEN) COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Hainaut Belgium
Number of casualties: 53
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