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Private GEORGE ALBERT GOFORTH

Service Number: 24319
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 03 May 1917

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX

II. G. 22.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Born at Grimston, Holderness, Yorks. Son of Robert and Jane E. Goforth, of Hatfield Parva, Skirlaugh, Hull.
  • Personal Inscription SAFE IN THE ARMS OF JESUS
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Buried or commemorated at

BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 2073
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