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Lance Corporal ROBERT HORSFALL

Service Number: P/916
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Military Police Corps

Military Mounted Police

Date of Death

Died 12 August 1917

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BRANDHOEK NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

V. B. 16.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert and Margaret Horsfall, of Orton, Tebay, Westmorland; husband of E. S. Horsfall, of 11, West View, Hensingham, Whitehaven, Cumberland.
  • Personal Inscription FOR KING & COUNTRY GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS LOVED ONES
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Buried or commemorated at

BRANDHOEK NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 559
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