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  • ASKEW
  • E
  • ERNEST
  • Shap
  • Cumberland, England
  • Son of George and Margaret Askew; three sisters, Margaret, Elizabeth and Ethel; a younger brother, George; resided for many years with John Hodgson of 40, Westmoreland Street, Skipton
  • Engine Cleaner with Midland Railway Co.

Military service

  • Skipton, Yorkshire
  • 2006
  • Private
  • 1st/6th Bn. Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) A Coy.
  • 147th Brigade
  • 49th Division
  • B.E.F.
  • to France on 14 April 1915

Death

  • 22 July, Canal Bank
  • Died of shell wounds, back, side and hands in n° 10 CCS
  • 23 July 1915
  • 24
  • III - A - 18A

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