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Private JOSEPH FORTNUM

Service Number: 32875
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Army Medical Corps

No. 1 Field Amb.

Date of Death

Died 04 May 1915

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SHORNCLIFFE MILITARY CEMETERY

O. 275.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Ellen Fortnum, of Lion Farm, Portway, Burghill, Hereford, England.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR OTHERS
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Buried or commemorated at

SHORNCLIFFE MILITARY CEMETERY
Kent United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 699
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