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Wars Last Goodbyes
Individual Record
Inscription
Also of their son
Sydney John Southgate
Killed in action in Belgium
April 11th 1918
Aged 32 years
Rest in peace
Place of Inscription
St Mary Magdalene Eardisley
Herefordshire
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Sydney John
Southgate
1886
Eardisley, Herefordshire
11th April 1918
Killed in action when the troop train he was in with his battalion was probably hit by a rogue shell - killed at least 29 including Sydney of the 4th King's Liverpool and they are buried as one at Chocques
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Chocques Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
First World War
Private
4th Battalion The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Royal Welsh Fusiliers
One large cross with all 29 names on marks Sydney's and his comrades names
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