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Corporal DESMOND CARL JONES

Service Number: 40430
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Manchester Regiment

20th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 03 April 1917

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

H.A.C. CEMETERY, ECOUST-ST. MEIN

III. G. 25.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment formerly (1906) Cheshire Yeomanry
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William E. and Edna Jones, of Elvyn Cottage, Bramhall, Cheshire.
  • Personal Inscription THE GREATEST OF ALL GIFTS HIS LIFE NOBLE IN LIFE,NOBLE IN DEATH
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Buried or commemorated at

H.A.C. CEMETERY, ECOUST-ST. MEIN
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 1921
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