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Corporal CHRISTOPHER POWELL

Service Number: 5567859
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Wiltshire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 23 May 1940

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ROEUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Grave 4.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Elizabeth Powell; husband of Hilda Elizabeth Powell, of Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent.
  • Personal Inscription CHRIST WILL LINK THE BROKEN CHAIN CLOSER WHEN WE MEET AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

ROEUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 30
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