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Lance Corporal JAMES FLETCHER

Service Number: 2587658
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Corps of Signals

Date of Death

Died 24 May 1942

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANCHI WAR CEMETERY

2. J. 5.

India

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. IV. Indian Corps Sigs. Indian Signal Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Aaron and Frances Ellen Fletcher, of Glossop, Derbyshire; husband of Bertha Fletcher, of Glossop.
  • Personal Inscription "THERE'S SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD THAT IS FOR EVER ENGLAND" R.I.P.
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Buried or commemorated at

RANCHI WAR CEMETERY
India
Number of casualties: 707
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