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Lieutenant SIDNEY HOWARD MOTION

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Northamptonshire Regiment

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 01 August 1917

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BRANDHOEK NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

I. B. 11.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of Sidney H. and Clara Louise Motion, of Leigh, Surrey. Undergraduate of Caius College, Cambridge. His brother Donald Graham Motion died on service in the 1939-1945 war.
  • Personal Inscription I THANK MY GOD UPON EVERY REMEMBRANCE OF YOU
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Buried or commemorated at

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