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Private JOSEPH HANCOCK

Service Number: 16641
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 28 May 1915

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LE TOUQUET-PARIS PLAGE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

II. A. 4.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Lucy Harrison Hancock, of 1, Byron Rd., Maltby, Rotherham. Native of Audley, Stoke-on-Trent.
  • Personal Inscription ONE OF THE BEST
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Buried or commemorated at

LE TOUQUET-PARIS PLAGE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 142
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