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Private GEORGE DAKIN

Service Number: 242613
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Leicestershire Regiment

1st/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 June 1917

Buried or commemorated at

LOOS BRITISH CEMETERY

XIX. A. 19.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Sarah Ann Dakin, of Wigston, Leicestershire.
  • Personal Inscription AND ON HIM THEY LAID THE CROSS THAT HE MIGHT BEAR IT AFTER JESUS
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Buried or commemorated at

LOOS BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 2896
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