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Lance Corporal WILLIAM JAMES EDWARD BURNS

Service Number: 85695
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps

143rd Coy.

Date of Death

Died 14 August 1917

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOSPITAL FARM CEMETERY

E. 13.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Harriet Burns, of Bootle, Lancs.
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Buried or commemorated at

HOSPITAL FARM CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 116
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