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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Accrington
• Land Lancashire, England
• Family Youngest son of Richard and Jane Ranson, of 174, Willows Lane, Accrington; three brothers, John, Edward and Richard and two sisters, Elizabeth and Grace; his brother Richard also served in the same RAMC unit and survived;
• Extra info He was a keen amateur naturalist

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment September 1914, Accrington
• Service number 41581
• Rank Serjeant
• Regiment and unit 52nd Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps

Death

• Wounded 4 October
• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds in the back, perforating the lung, at 7.20 am in n°10 CCS
• Died at the age of 22
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery I - C - 39A

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