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• Name SIFTON
• Initials WA
• First name WILLIAM ALFRED
• Place of birth London
• Country England
• Last residence London
• Family Son of Alfred John and Alice Elizabeth Sifton, of Ealing, London; one sister, Kathleen Margaret;
• Education St.Paul's School, Hammersmith; King's College London and London School of Economics;
• Profession Student
• Extra info Commemorated King's College Chapel and Ealing War Memorial

Military service

• Rank Second Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 8th Bn. South Staffordshire Regiment
• Division - Brigade 51st Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 17th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career to France July 1915

Death

• Wounded 24 December, hit by pieces of a trench mortar bomb, Railway Wood
• Type of wounds Died of wounds, in n°10 CCS
• Date of death 25 December 1915
• Died at the age of 20
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery II - A - 22

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