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Corporal JAMES HENRY BOYCOTT

Service Number: 5735366
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Devonshire Regiment

12th (Airborne) Bn.

Date of Death

Died 28 August 1944

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

VIII. A. 21.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Harry and Elizabeth Boycott; husband of Gladys Marjorie Boycott, of Uppingham, Rutland.
  • Personal Inscription "THAT THERE'S SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD THAT IS FOR EVER ENGLAND"
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Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 4654
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