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Serjeant JOHN TIGHE

Service Number: 86262
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

170th Tunnelling Coy.

Date of Death

Died 05 August 1917

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NOEUX-LES-MINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY

II. G. 27.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Michael and Maria Tighe, of 39, Lyndhurst Rd., Burnley. His brother James Tighe also fell.
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Buried or commemorated at

NOEUX-LES-MINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 981
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