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Private JOSEPH WILFRED BURTON

Service Number: 7025
Regiment & Unit/Ship

East Lancashire Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 01 July 1916

Age 37 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HAWTHORN RIDGE CEMETERY NO.1, AUCHONVILLERS

A. 59.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the late Burton Burton and Elizabeth Burton, of Accrington.
  • Personal Inscription EVER DEAR TO THE MEMORY OF HIS LOVED ONES AT HOME
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Buried or commemorated at

HAWTHORN RIDGE CEMETERY NO.1, AUCHONVILLERS
Somme France
Number of casualties: 153
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