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• Name BRAYNE
• Initials JW
• First name JOHN WILLIAM
• Place of birth Ruyton-Eleven-Towns
• Country Shropshire, England
• Family Son of Thomas and Mary Ann Brayne, of Wig Marsh, West Felton, Salop; a younger sister, Mary;
• Profession Locomotive Fireman Chester, Great Western Railway

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Chester
  
• Service number 7561
• Rank Sapper
• Regiment and unit 4th (Monmouthshire) Siege Coy. Royal Engineers
• Other data related to military career To France 21 October 1915

Death

• Wounded 31 March, St.Eloi trenches
• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds to the chest, in n°17 CCS
• Date of death 7 April 1916
• Died at the age of 22
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery V - D - 29

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