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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Beech Hill
• Land Berkshire, England
• Last residence Beech Hill, Berkshire
• Family Son of George and Martha (Appleton) Batten, of Beech Hill, Reading. He had eight brothers and four sisters. Four brothers also served.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment October 1914, Hounslow, Middlesex
• Service number 9813
• Rank Serjeant
• Medals M M (1916) and Bar
• Regiment and unit 1st Bn. Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)

Death

• Wounded Veldhoek, 26 September
• Type of wounds Died of bullet wound in the eye
• Died at the age of 22
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXIV - E - 14A

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