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Serjeant ERNEST ALFRED HANCOCK

Service Number: 3409
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Rifle Brigade

Date of Death

Died 21 September 1917

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DAR ES SALAAM WAR CEMETERY

6. J. 6.

Tanzania

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 2nd/2nd King's African Rifles
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles and Emma May Hancock, of 55, Abbotts Park Rd., Leyton, London, England. Born at Camberwell, London, England.
  • Personal Inscription FATHER IN THY GRACIOUS KEEPING LEAVE WE NOW THY SERVANT SLEEPING
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Buried or commemorated at

DAR ES SALAAM WAR CEMETERY
Tanzania
Number of casualties: 1917
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