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Personal data

• Name SILVERWOOD
• Initials A
• First name ALAN
• Place of birth Bradford
• Country Yorkshire, England
• Family Son of John Henry and Clara Silverwood, of 5, New Row, Daisy Hill, Bradford, Yorkshire; five sisters, Gertrude, Vivian Mab, Kate and Louisa; four brothers, Frank, George, Fred and Norman;
• Profession Shoemaker

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Bradford, Yorkshire
• Service number 241647
• Rank Corporal
• Medals D C M, M M
• Regiment and unit 1st/6th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
• Division - Brigade 146th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 49th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career to France 4 December 1915; DCM for 'conspicuous gallantry during reconaissance. He also went out alone in daylight and found and carried in a man missing from a patrol and who had been wounded' (gazetted 22 September 1916) ; former service number 4539

Death

• Date of death 11 November 1917
• Died at the age of 21
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVII - A - 8

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