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• Name DEWHIRST
• Initials C
• First name CHARLIE
• Place of birth Midgley
• Country Yorkshire, England
• Family Son of Eliza Dewhirst, of Four Lane Ends, Midgley, Luddendenfoot, Yorkshire; three sisters;
• Education Midgley United Methodist Church & Sunday School

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Halifax, 1916
• Service number 32086
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 8th Bn. York and Lancaster Regiment
• Division - Brigade 70th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 23rd Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Formerly 4000, Yorkshire Dragoons.

Death

• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds left leg, buttock, in n°3 Can CCS
• Date of death 28 May 1917
• Died at the age of 22
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XII - B - 29A

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