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Those known to have served with68th Infantry Brigade during the Great War 1914-1918. - Jacques Albert. Gnr. 68th Coy.
- Platts James. Pte 10th Btn. (d.20th September 1917)
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264358 Gnr. Albert Jacques 68th Coy. Machine Gun Corps Albert Jacques joined up with the York and Lancaster Regiment and later served with the 68th Coy Machine Gun Corps.
He was hospitalised for 3 months in 1916 at No 2 General Hospital at Le Havre
and was entitled to wear a Wound Stripe from 6th of July 1916.
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222957 Pte James Platts 10th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers (d.20th September 1917) James Platts was born in Bagthorpe, Nottinghamshire in 1890 and lived on Church Lane.
At the time of the war he lived with his parents James and Kate Platts of Great Northern Road, Jacksdale, Nottinghamshire. James Senior is listed as a Grocer who later moved to a shop on Franklin Road, Jacksdale.
James was sent to France on 25th August 1915.
He is buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery in Belgium. Family members have said he was shot in the head by a German sniper.
James' mother Kate died in 1918 and his father died in 1923. They are both buried at St Mary's Church, Westwood, behind Jacksdale Miners' Welfare. Their son James is commemorated on their headstone. James' name appears on the memorial in Jacksdale and also in St Helen's Church, Selston.
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