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Sapper ELISHA MAKINSON

Service Number: 478289
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

459th (West Riding) Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 16 March 1917

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PHILOSOPHE BRITISH CEMETERY, MAZINGARBE

II. M. 1.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Hilda Makinson, of 20, Salisbury Rd., Crookes, Sheffield.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR
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Buried or commemorated at

PHILOSOPHE BRITISH CEMETERY, MAZINGARBE
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 2001
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