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  • Accrington
  • Lancashire, England
  • Youngest son of Richard and Jane Ranson, of 174, Willows Lane, Accrington; three brothers, John, Edward and Richard and two sisters, Elizabeth and Grace; his brother Richard also served in the same RAMC unit and survived;
  • He was a keen amateur naturalist

Military service

  • September 1914, Accrington
  • 41581
  • Serjeant
  • 52nd Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps

Death

  • 4 October
  • Died of shrapnel wounds in the back, perforating the lung, at 7.20 am in n°10 CCS
  • 22
  • I - C - 39A

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