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Lance Corporal JOHN MORTON

Service Number: 79252
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Infantry

31st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 06 April 1916

Age 41 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BIRR CROSS ROADS CEMETERY

I. A. 26.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of John and Mary Morton, of Launceston, Cornwall, England; husband of Laura May Morton, of 14, Oxford Grove, Ilfracombe, Devon, England.
  • Personal Inscription O FOR THE TOUCH OF A VANISHED HAND & THE SOUND OF A VOICE THAT'S STILL
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Buried or commemorated at

BIRR CROSS ROADS CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 834
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