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Fred Cockroft

Private

Service No. 202363

Age 19

Died on 4 May 1917

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

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Somme, France

Son of Jeremiah and Emily Etta Cockroft, of 11, Gladstone View, Siddal, Halifax.

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Henry Harrison

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

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Fred, I am not aware of the precise circumstances of your death, nor what caused it, but, as a former soldier in the 1st and 7th Battalions ...

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