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Lance Corporal GEORGE ELKIN

Service Number: R/39530
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Royal Rifle Corps

Date of Death

Died 22 November 1917

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HERMIES HILL BRITISH CEMETERY

IV. D. 4.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment posted to 9th Bn. London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Emma Elkin, of Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent; husband of Dorothy Sarah Elkin, of 17, Westwood Grove, Leek, Staffs.
  • Personal Inscription FATHER IN THY GRACIOUS KEEPING LEAVE WE HERE OUR LOVED ONE SLEEPING
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Buried or commemorated at

HERMIES HILL BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 1039
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