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Lance Corporal JOSEPH WADKIN

Service Number: 16729
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

12th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 17 June 1916

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DRANOUTRE MILITARY CEMETERY

I. F. 12.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Mary Wadkin, of Rempstone, Loughborough, and the late Richard Wadkin.
  • Personal Inscription WILLINGLY OFFERED HIMSELF 8.9.14
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Buried or commemorated at

DRANOUTRE MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 459
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