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Private JOSEPH HILLARY

Service Number: 325179
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Durham Light Infantry

9th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 25 July 1917

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

POPERINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

II. E. 25.

Belgium

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 171st Tunnelling Coy Royal Engineers
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Colling and Sarah Hillary, of 14, School Row, Hamsterley Colliery, Westwood, Co. Durham.
  • Personal Inscription HIS DEAR SWEET FACE NEVER ON THIS EARTH CAN BE REPLACED
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Buried or commemorated at

POPERINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 953
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