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Private W J RICHARDS

Service Number: 82145
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

241st Coy.

Date of Death

Died 18 August 1917

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VILLERS-FAUCON COMMUNAL CEMETERY

E. 72.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Emily Richards, of Whitemoor; husband of Edith Louisa Richards, of 5, North Terrace, Whitemoor, St. Austell, Cornwall.
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Buried or commemorated at

VILLERS-FAUCON COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 318
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