Detail victim

Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth St. Michael's
• Land Durham, England

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Houghton-Le-Spring
• Service number 9815
• Rank Lance Corporal
• Regiment and unit 1st Bn. Coldstream Guards
• Other data related to military career to France on 12 August 1914

Death

• Wounded Bombardment on Poperinge. One of the projectiles hits the porch where the guardsmen were standing. Nine of them are dead instantly. The wounded were brought to Remi Siding; two of them die in the hospital (also private Fletcher).
• Type of wounds Died of multiple gunshot wounds, n°17 CCS
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery VI - D - 24A

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