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Corporal JOHN HIRD

Service Number: 14773
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Border Regiment

7th (Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry) Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 October 1918

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

AMERVAL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, SOLESMES

A. 20.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Esther Hird, of Stubble Green, Drigg, Holmrook, Cumberland, and the late William Hird.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

AMERVAL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, SOLESMES
Nord France
Number of casualties: 151
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