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Database: Sydney Ackerley

Name:	Sydney Ackerley
Date of Death:	22-Mar-1918
Grave Number:	B19_603
Age:	22
Address:	Regent Square, Salford
City:	Salford
Service Number:	8046
Rank:	Lance Corporal
Unit:	Manchester Regiment
Biography:	Service number: 8046 Battalion: 17th Prior to the war Sydney worked at Thomas Collier and Sons in High St, Manchester. Sydney was awarded the Military Medal for putting a German machine gun out of action whilst he was under heavy fire. His brother Private 291564 Harold Ackerley was in the Welsh Regiment (10th Battalion) and died of Wounds 24/12/1917 age 24.