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Lieutenant MATTHEW WYLIE BURGESS

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 23 July 1918

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BIENVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY

XVIII. C. 13.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Margaret W. Burgess, of 18, Battlefield Gardens, Langside, Glasgow, and the late John Burgess.
  • Personal Inscription HE HATH DONE WHAT HE COULD
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Buried or commemorated at

BIENVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 1624
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