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Private GEORGE ERNEST WILKS

Service Number: 26477
Regiment & Unit/Ship

York and Lancaster Regiment

3rd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 03 November 1918

Buried or commemorated at

HUDDERSFIELD (EDGERTON) CEMETERY

30. 168C.

United Kingdom

Headstone for George Ernest Wilks, b orn 1891 Croft Cottage Lane Huddersfield, baptised 14 June 1891 Huddersfield St. Andrew's, son of Richard & Maria Wilks, died Halifax

Photographer: John Ellam

  • Secondary Unit, Regiment transf. to (168615) Labour Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
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Buried or commemorated at

HUDDERSFIELD (EDGERTON) CEMETERY
Yorkshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 169
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