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Gunner WILLIAM KIRKBY

Service Number: 223488
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Field Artillery

"A" Bty. 307th Bde.

Date of Death

Died 10 May 1918

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VIEILLE-CHAPELLE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, LACOUTURE

VIII. E. 2.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Walter and Sarah Anne Kirkby; husband of Florence Kirkby, of Heanor, Derbyshire.
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Buried or commemorated at

VIEILLE-CHAPELLE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, LACOUTURE
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 994
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