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Private GILBERT EDWARD DEAKIN

Service Number: 34076
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

"D" Coy. 2nd/1st Bucks Bn.

Date of Death

Died 06 December 1917

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FIFTEEN RAVINE BRITISH CEMETERY, VILLERS-PLOUICH

I. A. 8.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Deakin; husband of Dorothy Gladys Deakin, of 305, Highfield Rd., Hall Green, Birmingham.
  • Personal Inscription SLEEP ON DEAR HUSBAND WITH ENGLAND'S HEROES IN THE WATCHFUL CARE OF GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

FIFTEEN RAVINE BRITISH CEMETERY, VILLERS-PLOUICH
Nord France
Number of casualties: 1267
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