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Second Lieutenant CHARLES WITT

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

46th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 22 September 1918

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY

D. 8.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 5th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles and Elizabeth Witt, of 20, Slater Avenue, Derby.
  • Personal Inscription THOU WILT KEEP HIM IN PERFECT PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

HANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 118
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