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Rank : WOII (CSM)

Army Number : 6659

Unit : 2nd Bn

Biography :

Serving as Lance Corporal in 1905. Promoted to Corporal 21.5.1906. Was serving with the 2nd Bn as Sergeant in 1912. His pre-war service included India. Sergeant and Warrant Officer Class 2 during World War One. Died 18.1.1940, aged 53.

Was POW at Raismes in 1918.

Father of Joseph Owen Squires who served in WWII in the Leicestershire Regiment and later REME and served with the Chindits with Orde Wingate in operation 'Thursday' in Burma, 1944, and as a Sapper was attached to 7th Leicesters, 74 Column.

Date of Death : 8.1.1940

Place of Death : Loughborough & Leicestershire & United Kingdom

Period of Service : 1900s

Conflicts : WW1

Places Served : & & India