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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Rochdale
• Land Lancashire, England
• Last residence Brierfield, Lancs
• Family Eldest Son of Samuel and Lilly Brigg of Wood Nook Farm, Brierfield, Lancs, two brothers, Harold and Wilfred; two sisters, Edith and Annie
• Profession Assistant to secretary

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment August 1915, Burnley, Lancs
• Service number 241629
• Rank Lance Serjeant
• Regiment and unit 2nd/5th Bn. East Lancashire Regiment
• Other data related to military career Until the end of October 1917 engaged in clerical work at many places. Transfer to France October 1917.

Death

• Type of wounds Died of shell gas poisoning in n°3 Canadian CCS
• Died at the age of 21
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVII - BB - 17

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