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Sapper WALTER DAVID HANCOX

Service Number: 140053
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

154th Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 01 July 1916

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BIENVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY

VIII. B. 13.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of David and Ellen Hancox, of Grove Lodge, Deddington, Oxford. His brothers Albert Edward Hancox and William Rufus Hancox also fell.
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Buried or commemorated at

BIENVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 1624
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