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Lance Corporal HAROLD PERCY WAKE

Service Number: 200505
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

"B" Coy. 1st/4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 26 March 1917

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TINCOURT NEW BRITISH CEMETERY

X. A. 16.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Walter and Martha Wake, of 303, Cowley Rd., Oxford.
  • Personal Inscription HOW BRIGHT THESE GLORIOUS SPIRITS SHINE
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Buried or commemorated at

TINCOURT NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 2139
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