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Bosworth, Percy
1892 - 1917

Enlistment

  • Enlisted:
  • during WWI
  • Next of kin:
  • (father) Frederick Bosworth, 11 The Avenue, Rothwell

Service history

4th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment (201731)
04 May 1917On the hired transport 'Transylvania' when it was sunk by torpedo off Cape Vado. More than 400 lives lost. 83 buried at Savona, the Savona Memorial commemorates 275 more with no known grave, Italy.




 

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