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Sapper HUGH LESLIE BIRKETT

Service Number: 9/1777
Regiment & Unit/Ship

New Zealand Engineers

Date of Death

Died 11 May 1917

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY

IV. B. 81.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of Henry James and Emma Birkett, of Opunake, Taranaki, New Zealand.

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Buried or commemorated at

LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 3548
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