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Private WILLIAM CHARLES WAKE

Service Number: 6178
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Infantry, A.I.F.

26th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 05 October 1917

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NINE ELMS BRITISH CEMETERY

II. C. 1.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Charles Vernon Drury Wake and Ellen Wake, of Deverell Street, Charleville, Queensland.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS YOUNG LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY
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Buried or commemorated at

NINE ELMS BRITISH CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1615
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