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Private WILLIAM SHARPLES

Service Number: 1997
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Medical Corps

65th W. Lancs. Field Amb

Date of Death

Died 04 October 1915

Age 17 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LE TREPORT MILITARY CEMETERY

Plot 2. Row J. Grave 8.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Margaret Sharples, of Blackburn, England.
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Buried or commemorated at

LE TREPORT MILITARY CEMETERY
Seine-Maritime France
Number of casualties: 452
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