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Private W BLAKE

Service Number: 12447
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Fusiliers

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 01 August 1915

Buried or commemorated at

HOUPLINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Houplines Old Mil. Cem. Mem.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Personal Inscription KILLED IN ACTION AND BURIED AT THE TIME IN HOUPLINES OLD MILITARY CEMETERY WHOSE GRAVE WAS DESTROYED IN LATER BATTLES THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT
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Buried or commemorated at

HOUPLINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Nord France
Number of casualties: 534
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