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Corporal WILLIAM LAWTON

Service Number: 1131
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Field Artillery

Z 55th Trench Mortar Bty.

Date of Death

Died 10 January 1917

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VLAMERTINGHE MILITARY CEMETERY

V. D. 14.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Medal
  • Additional Info Son of William and Mary Alice Lawton, of Widnes, Lancs.
  • Personal Inscription A LOVING SON A BROTHER KIND A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY LEFT BEHIND
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Buried or commemorated at

VLAMERTINGHE MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1182
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