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Private WILLIE OLDROYD

Service Number: 50635
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gloucestershire Regiment

1st/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 10 October 1918

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TINCOURT NEW BRITISH CEMETERY

VII. B. 16.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joshua G. and Edith Oldroyd, of Church Lane Cottages, Twitch Hill, Horbury, Yorks.
  • Personal Inscription LOVE'S LAST GIFT REMEMBRANCE
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Buried or commemorated at

TINCOURT NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 2139
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