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Lance Serjeant WILFRED POINTON

Service Number: 20101
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

10th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 08 August 1917

Age 38 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX

IV. A. 38.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry and Emma Pointon, of Linton, Derbyshire; husband of Elizabeth Pointon, of 53, Portland Rd., Shirebrook, Notts.
  • Personal Inscription SAFE IN THE ARMS OF JESUS WE SHALL MEET AGAIN NOT DEAD BUT SLEEPETH
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Buried or commemorated at

BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 2073
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