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Acting Bombardier HUBERT JAMES RICKETTS

Service Number: 2/1664
Regiment & Unit/Ship

New Zealand Field Artillery

6th Bty.

Date of Death

Died 04 October 1916

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FLATIRON COPSE CEMETERY, MAMETZ

I. G. 31.

France

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of John and Eliza Ricketts, of 17, Russell St., Port Nelson, New Zealand. Also served at Samoa and Egypt. Born at Nelson, New Zealand.
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Buried or commemorated at

FLATIRON COPSE CEMETERY, MAMETZ
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1573
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