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Private WILLIAM ELKERTON

Service Number: 3/6897
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Dorsetshire Regiment

6th Entrenching Bn., late 1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 04 November 1915

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CORBIE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Plot I. Row B. Grave 28.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ellen Elkerton, of 14, Vesey Street, Poplar, London.
  • Personal Inscription PRAY FOR THE SOUL OF MY BELOVED SON SWEET JESUS HAVE MERCY.

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Buried or commemorated at

CORBIE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 249
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