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Private EDWARD BEKEN ASHCROFT

Service Number: 5649
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Pioneers

2nd

Date of Death

Died 08 May 1917

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GREVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY

IV. D. 2.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Emma Marion Ashcroft, of 33, Sheffield St., Coburg, Victoria, Australia, and the late Walter Boyes Ashcroft. Born in England.His brother William Henry Ashcroft also fell.
  • Personal Inscription THY WILL BE DONE O LORD
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Buried or commemorated at

GREVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 2132
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