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Private RICHARD MORTON

Service Number: 59447
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

16th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 10 August 1918

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VALENCIENNES (ST. ROCH) COMMUNAL CEMETERY

V. E. 19.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Elias and Emma Morton, of Beeley, Derbyshire; husband of Annie Morton, of Edensor, Bakewell, Derbyshire.
  • Personal Inscription HIS END WAS PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

VALENCIENNES (ST. ROCH) COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Nord France
Number of casualties: 919
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