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2Nd Corporal MATTHEW JAMES WARD

Service Number: 104419
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

79th Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 21 September 1918

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

UNICORN CEMETERY, VENDHUILE

III. A. 25.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Una Ward, of 3/1, Somerset St., Barnsley.
  • Personal Inscription I DID MY BEST TO SAVE MY COUNTRY THY WILL BE DONE
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Buried or commemorated at

UNICORN CEMETERY, VENDHUILE
Aisne France
Number of casualties: 1008
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