Force: Walsall Borough Police
Rank: Private 31860
Regiment or Service: 10th Battalion Shropshire and Cheshire Yeomanry
How they died: Killed in a battle at St. Floris when his battalion came under severe enemy fire and took part in hand-to-hand combat
Burial or Memorial: Vieille-Chapelle New Military Cemetery, Lacoutre in Grave VI.C.5
Age at death: 26
Date of death: 22nd August 1918
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