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• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Oakenshaw
• Land Yorkshire, England
• Family Son of William Henry and Mary Elizabeth Crossland, of Lower Chatts Farm, Oakenshaw, Bradford, Yorks; three brothers, William, Albert and John; three sisters, Nellie and Hannah
• Profession Employee at worster spinning mill Lister

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Cleckheaton
• Service number 18/1405
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 11th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
• Other data related to military career Enlisted in the 18th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (2nd Battalion Bradford Pals); served in Egypt

Death

• Wounded 19 September, Inverness Copse
• Type of wounds Died of shell wounds to right leg, at n°10 CCS
• Died at the age of 21
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXIV - C - 16A

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