Person    | Male  Born 1915  Died 24/10/1942

Gunner George Beacroft

War dead, WW2 i

Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW2.

Gunner George Beacroft

Husband of Hannah Beacroft of Hackney. Gunner in The Royal Artillery 159 Field Regiment. Buried in Basra War Cemetery, Iraq. Named on the Hindle memorial as 'Pte. G. Beecroft'.

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Gunner George Beacroft

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Hindle House - WW2 - first plaque - first appearance

To the memory of those who fell in the 1939 - 1945 world war. On active servi...

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C. L. Bessey

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Humphrey Firman, VC

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War dead, WW2
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Ernest Dowson

Ernest Dowson

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