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Private JOHN ARTHUR HANCOCK

Service Number: 97755
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

123rd Coy.

Date of Death

Died 29 June 1917

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WYTSCHAETE MILITARY CEMETERY

VI. D. 1.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Arthur and Lizzie Hancock, of 36, Chaplin Rd., Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
  • Personal Inscription THY LIFE WAS GIVEN FOR ME
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Buried or commemorated at

WYTSCHAETE MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1016
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