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Private R S HANCOCK

Service Number: 79517
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Fusiliers

9th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 30 August 1918

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DAOURS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

VII. A. 57.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas Hancock, of Newbiggin Colliery; husband of Bessie Hancock, of North Seaton Village, Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland.
  • Personal Inscription EVER REMEMBERED BY WIFE & SON
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Buried or commemorated at

DAOURS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1231
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