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Serjeant ERNEST SPARROW

Service Number: 8816
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Coldstream Guards

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 16 September 1916

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GUARDS' CEMETERY, LESBOEUFS

XIII. K. 5.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Medal
  • Additional Info Son of the late James Sparrow, of Dovercourt Rd., Rotherham; husband of Alice E. Pither (formerly Sparrow), of 7, Avarn Rd., Tooting, London.
  • Personal Inscription UNTIL THE DAY BREAKS
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Buried or commemorated at

GUARDS' CEMETERY, LESBOEUFS
Somme France
Number of casualties: 3143
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