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Corporal EDWARD SYKES

Service Number: 3458044
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lancashire Fusiliers

11th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 02 September 1944

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY

I. C. 1.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Margaret Sykes, of Ramsbottom, Lancashire; husband of Agnes Sykes, of Shuttleworth, Ramsbottom.
  • Personal Inscription ETERNAL REST GRANT UNTO HIM, O LORD; AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON HIM
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Buried or commemorated at

FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1638
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