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Private HORACE GUY CROFT

Service Number: G/23800
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Sussex Regiment

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 08 August 1918

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BEACON CEMETERY, SAILLY-LAURETTE

V. C. 3.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment formerly London Regiment (Artists' Rifles)
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the late Edmund John and Bessie Croft, of Bournemouth.
  • Personal Inscription WITH CHRIST WHICH IS FAR BETTER
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Buried or commemorated at

BEACON CEMETERY, SAILLY-LAURETTE
Somme France
Number of casualties: 772
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