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Private JOSEPH MESSENGER

Service Number: 22040
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 14 November 1916

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VARENNES MILITARY CEMETERY

I. E. 84.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Elizabeth Ann Messenger, of Maryport, Cumberland.
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Buried or commemorated at

VARENNES MILITARY CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1220
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