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From: "john ovenden" <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] WWI help with A. CLIFF
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 18:19:43 +0100
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Thank you very much Iain.
This ARTHUR you have found is the right one, his brother JOHN was born
Castle Donington too. I have done a print out from the war graves site but
no place of birth mentioned.
So again thank you for your time.

Best wishes,
Maureen Walters nee Cliff

Pontefract & District FHS website:
http://freespace.virgin.net/richard.lockwood

----- Original Message -----
From: "Iain Kerr" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 6:49 AM
Subject: Re: [WW1] WWI help with A. CLIFF


> At 21:18 05/10/00, john ovenden wrote:
> >Can anyone give me any info on ARTHUR CLIFF died May 1917
> >he was my grandfathers brother born 1895
>
> Maureen,
>
> "Soldiers Died in the Great War" reveals:
>
> 27317 Private Arthur CLIFF, 15th (Service) Battalion, The Prince of
Wales's
> Own (West Yorkshire Regiment); born Castle Donington, Leicestershire,
> enlisted at Loughborough. Killed in Action on 3 May 1917 in France and
> Flanders. He had prior services in the Leicestershire Regiment as 24545
> Private Arthur CLIFF.
>
> You may find more about his place of burial or memorial on the
Commonwealth
> War Graves Commission web site at http://www.cwgc.org.uk/ Use the "Debt
of
> Honour" searchable register.
>
> Yours aye,
>
> Iain Kerr
> In Windsor, Berkshire
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