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Private GEORGE CHASE RICKETTS

Service Number: 700600
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Infantry

43rd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 01 October 1918

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MILL SWITCH BRITISH CEMETERY, TILLOY-LEZ-CAMBRAI

C. 5.

France

Headstone

Photographer: Bill Caudwell

  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Tom and Isabella Ricketts, of High St., Sawston, Cambs, England. His brother Leonard James also fell.
  • Personal Inscription ALSO IN MEMORY OF PTE. L.J. RICKETTS AGE 20 MISSING AT HILL 60, 22.4.15 THY WILL BE DONE
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Buried or commemorated at

MILL SWITCH BRITISH CEMETERY, TILLOY-LEZ-CAMBRAI
Nord France
Number of casualties: 107
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