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Acting Bombardier WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM

Service Number: 3260
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Field Artillery

151st Bde.

Date of Death

Died 13 February 1916

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CORBIE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Plot I. Row D. Grave 19.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Ann Cunningham, of Leigh, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription COULD I, HIS MOTHER. HAVE CLASPED HIS HAND AND WHISPERED WILLIAM, FAREWELL.
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Buried or commemorated at

CORBIE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 249
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