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Lance Corporal JOHN WILLIAM BLAKELEY

Service Number: 8480
Regiment & Unit/Ship

West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 11 December 1914

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MERVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

I. K. 43.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John William and Ruth Blakeley, of 9, Old Woolwich Rd., East Greenwich, London.
  • Personal Inscription NEVER SHALL THY MEMORY FADE FATHER, MOTHER SISTERS AND BROTHERS
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Buried or commemorated at

MERVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Nord France
Number of casualties: 1290
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