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Joseph Croft

Private

Service No. S/43473

Age 17

Died on 6 September 1916

Gordon Highlanders

DELVILLE WOOD CEMETERY, LONGUEVAL

Somme, France

Son of Nathan and Jemima Croft, of 31, Ripon Rd., Harrogate, Yorks.

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michael CHARTER

I wish I had known you and had a chance to thank you for everything you gave to us who survive you.

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Henry Harrison

Joseph, O valiant heart, who to your glory came….your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

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michael CHARTER

To remember for future generations that my great uncle made the sacrifice in Ginchy. A long way from Harrogate

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michael CHARTER

We will remember them. Today, Tomorrow, Forever.

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My grandmother, your Sister Elizabeth Croft, always told me how you enlisted at 16, serves in the Cameron Highlanders, but was amalgamated a...

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Joseph, as a former soldier in the 1st and the 7th Warwicks and the 1st Lincolns myself, doing my National Service in peacetime in 1950-51, ...

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