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Lance Corporal J SYKES

Service Number: 21920
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

Date of Death

Died 10 October 1917

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NEW IRISH FARM CEMETERY

XXXIV. E. 5.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alice Sykes; husband of Ellen Sykes, of 9, Booth St., Edgeley, Stockport.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT HE LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR~
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Buried or commemorated at

NEW IRISH FARM CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 4759
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