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Corporal CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM BONAM

Service Number: 16938
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Leicestershire Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 11 April 1917

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VERMELLES BRITISH CEMETERY

VI. A. 25.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Medal
  • Additional Info Youngest son of the late Joseph Bonam, of Hoton, Loughborough; husband of R. H. Bonam, of Stonesby, Melton Mowbray.
  • Personal Inscription SUDDEN & UNEXPECTED HAS THE BLOW TO HIS DEAR FRIEND HE LEFT BEHIND IN ENGLAND
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Buried or commemorated at

VERMELLES BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 2145
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