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Gunner JOHN EWART SANDFORD

Service Number: 7012
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Field Artillery

4th Bde.

Date of Death

Died 15 May 1917

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VRAUCOURT COPSE CEMETERY, VAULX-VRAUCOURT

III. A. 5.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Robert Scott Wilson Sandford and Agnes Ellen Sandford. Born at Melbourne, Australia.
  • Personal Inscription TOO DEARLY LOVED TO BE EVER FORGOTTEN
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Buried or commemorated at

VRAUCOURT COPSE CEMETERY, VAULX-VRAUCOURT
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 103
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