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Lance Corporal WILFRED GODFREY OLNEY

Service Number: 29800
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps

47th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 28 May 1918

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FRANVILLERS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

I. B. 24.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Sarah Ann Olney, of 66, Prince St., Cotmanhay, Ilkeston, Derbyshire.
  • Personal Inscription AT REST
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Buried or commemorated at

FRANVILLERS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 253
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