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Sapper JOHN BRIGGS

Service Number: 2013681
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

Date of Death

Died 22 September 1941

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BYERS GREEN (ST. PETER) CHURCHYARD AND EXTENSION

Sec. D. Row 14N. Grave 2.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles Goodswen Briggs and Mary Briggs, of Byers Green.
  • Personal Inscription HE DID HIS DUTY TO THE END HE DIED AS HE LIVED EVERYONE'S FRIEND
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Buried or commemorated at

BYERS GREEN (ST. PETER) CHURCHYARD AND EXTENSION
Durham United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 8
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