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Second Lieutenant ROBERT LESLIE FAIRCLOUGH

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

218th Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 05 May 1917

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VOYENNES COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Left of entrance.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Born at Sunderland. Son of Florence Fairclough, of 27, Holly Avenue, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and the late Robert Morgan Fairclough, of Sunderland.
  • Personal Inscription ONE WHO NEVER TURNED HIS BACK BUT MANCHILD BREAST FORWARD
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Buried or commemorated at

VOYENNES COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1
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