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Private JOHN DEVENPORT

Service Number: 56578
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

15th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 16 October 1918

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY

XXX. F. 6.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Hannah Devenport; husband of Alice Devenport, of 44, Holbrook St., Heanor, Derbyshire. Native of Langley Mill, Nottingham.
  • Personal Inscription TOO DEARLY LOVED TO BE FORGOTTEN BY HIS EVER LOVING WIFE ALICE
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Buried or commemorated at

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 10786
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