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Corporal NORMAN HIRST

Service Number: 4/1166
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)

1st/4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 14 August 1915

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COLNE VALLEY CEMETERY

C. 9.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James Brearley Hirst and Fanny Hirst, of 2, Forester's Terrace, Clifton, Brighouse, Yorks.
  • Personal Inscription HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY HIS SOUL TO GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

COLNE VALLEY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 47
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