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Company Serjeant Major WILLIAM RAFFELL

Service Number: 3641
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Durham Light Infantry

1st/9th Bn

Date of Death

Died 15 November 1916

Age 46 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BOUZINCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

I. I. 4.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Catherine Ann Raffell, of 33, Carrick St., Gateshead. Native of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
  • Personal Inscription DEARLY LOVED, SADLY MISSED BY HIS LOVING WIFE & FAMILY REMEMBRANCE
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Buried or commemorated at

BOUZINCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 592
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