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Gunner JAMES SCOWCROFT

Service Number: 14237790
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

171 Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 05 August 1943

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PRESTON (NEW HALL LANE) CEMETERY

Sec. N.N. C. of E. Grave 346.

United Kingdom

Insignia has chips and is worn, but legible today. The PM in front obscures the family tribute. Not cleaned due to cleaning rota (I don't know when this happened, so I have avoided cleaning on this visit.)

Photographer: Elizabeth Fearnley

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Margaret Scowcroft, of Preston. husband of Mary Ellen Scowcroft, of Preston.
  • Personal Inscription FOR KING AND COUNTRY.
FOR EVERMORE: STORIES OF THE FALLEN
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Buried or commemorated at

PRESTON (NEW HALL LANE) CEMETERY
Lancashire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 508
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