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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Colkirk
• Land Norfolk, England
• Family Son of Frederick and Harriet; four sisters, Edith, Ethel, Annie and May; two brothers, George and Arthur;
  Husband of Mary Ann Pearson, of Long Yard, Colkirk, Fakenham, Norfolk; two children, Victor (1913) and Winifred (1914).
• Extra info Commemorated on the Colkirk war memorial an the village memorial at Campyngland

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Fakenham, October 1914
• Service number 17245
• Rank Corporal
• Regiment and unit 122nd Heavy Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery
• Other data related to military career To France, 8 March 1915; bombardier, promoted to Corporal 9 May 1915;

Death

• Wounded 15 November, Kruisstraat (south of Ypres), near the billet while on guard
• Type of wounds Died of shell wounds
• Died at the age of 32
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery IV - A - 3

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