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• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Mexico
• Land Mexico
• Last residence Heywood, Lancashire
• Family Son of George A. and Mona Gertrude Hartington, of Heywood, Lancs. Three brothers (George, Charles and Luis) and three sisters.
• Education Bury Grammar School
• Profession Military man

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment December 1914
• Rank Lieutenant
• Medals M C
• Regiment and unit 164th Coy. Machine Gun Corps
• Attached or transferred from 1st/5th - Bn. - Lancashire Fusiliers
• Other data related to military career To France 3 May 1915; seconded to the 164th Coy, Machine Gun corps (January 1916); Battle of the Somme; promotion to 1st lieutenant; 3rd Battle of Ypres

Death

• Wounded 12 July 1917
• Type of wounds Hit in the stomach by a piece of brass from a 4.5" shell cartridge; died in n° 10 CCS
• Died at the age of 21
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XIII - A - 1

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