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Serjeant WILLIAM GEORGE BURNS

Service Number: 10
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

4th (London) Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 02 April 1915

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GUARDS CEMETERY, WINDY CORNER, CUINCHY

I. F. 21.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George and Annie Burns, of 44, Oxberry Avenue, Pulham, London. Nine years in Royal Engineers (T.F.).
  • Personal Inscription R.I.P.
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Buried or commemorated at

GUARDS CEMETERY, WINDY CORNER, CUINCHY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 3448
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