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Private GEORGE BACKHOUSE

Service Number: 124538
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

38th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 23 July 1918

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

POZNAN OLD GARRISON CEMETERY

II. C. 2.

Poland

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry and Mary Caroline Backhouse, of 42, Walpole St., Rochdale.
  • Personal Inscription GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
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Buried or commemorated at

POZNAN OLD GARRISON CEMETERY
Poland
Number of casualties: 473
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