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Personal data

• Name ARMITAGE
• Initials J
• First name JOSEPH
• Place of birth Poynton
• Country Cheshire, England
• Family Son of William and Annie Armitage, of Poynton, Cheshire; a brother, William; two sisters, Elizabeth and Florence;
• Education Poynton Church School
• Profession Joiner at Claytons

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 21 June 1916, Stockport
• Service number 146183
• Rank Sapper
• Regiment and unit 95th Field Coy. Royal Engineers
• Army - Corps - Division 7th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career To France 20 July 1916

Death

• Wounded 30 September, Polygon Wood
• Type of wounds Died of shell wounds head and buttock, abdominal, in n°2 Can CCS
• Date of death 1 October 1917
• Died at the age of 24
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXV - E - 12

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