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• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Doseley
• Land Shropshire, England
• Family Youngest son of John and Annie Adlington; two brothers, William and Albert; three sisters Annie, Edith and Agnes
• Profession Employed at the Horsehay works

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 9 November 1914, Wellington, Salop
• Service number 70542
• Rank Lance Corporal
• Regiment and unit 42nd Coy. Machine Gun Corps
• Attached or transferred from Shropshire Light Infantry
• Other data related to military career Formerly n°15374

Death

• Wounded 22 October
• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds on left thigh and right buttock in n°3 Canadian CCS
• Died at the age of 21
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXII - A - 17

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