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Danby, J.R., L/Cpl., 1917
In Ypres Reservoir Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave of 246465 Lance Corporal J.R. Danby, serving with the Royal Engineers who died 19/10/1917.

Rev. David Youngson has submitted the following:

The son of Thomas C. Danby of 8 Newby Terrace, Stockton–on-Tees he was born at Stockton. Records indicate that he enlisted into the Durham Light Infantry at Stockton. He was killed in action on the 19th October 1917 aged 31. He is buried in Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Grave Reference I.F.85.

He is remembered in Stockton on S138.12 and S138.18a


The CWGC entry for Lance Corporal Danby

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