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Lance Corporal WILLIAM GEORGE YOUNG

Service Number: 53883
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

171st Coy.

Date of Death

Died 20 April 1917

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ESTAIRES COMMUNAL CEMETERY AND EXTENSION

IV. E. 2.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George W. and Dinah E. Young; husband of Elizabeth Amelia Young, of 39, Longbridge Rd., Barking, Essex.
  • Personal Inscription THOUGH DEATH DIVIDES LOVE AND MEMORY CLINGS
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Buried or commemorated at

ESTAIRES COMMUNAL CEMETERY AND EXTENSION
Nord France
Number of casualties: 900
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