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Lance Corporal WILLIE CLAYTON

Service Number: 18693
Regiment & Unit/Ship

East Lancashire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 08 July 1916

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HEILLY STATION CEMETERY, MERICOURT-L'ABBE

Sp. Mem. 4.

France

CAS ID 2705824

Photographer: UKNA

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Thomas and Mary Elizabeth Clayton, of 28, Wilton St., Burnley, Lancs.
  • Personal Inscription FOND MEMORIES GOD GAVETH AND HE TAKETH AWAY
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Buried or commemorated at

HEILLY STATION CEMETERY, MERICOURT-L'ABBE
Somme France
Number of casualties: 2973
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