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Sapper ETHELBERT SUMNER ASHTON

Service Number: 74295
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

"E" Corps H.Q. Signal Coy.

Date of Death

Died 16 August 1918

Age 37 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GLAGEON COMMUNAL CEMETERY

B. 5.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ralph and Rose Ashton, of Heaton Mersey, Stockport; husband of Hilda Christiana Ashton, of Blackpool.
  • Personal Inscription A LOVING HUSBAND DEEPLY REGRETTED
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Buried or commemorated at

GLAGEON COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Nord France
Number of casualties: 221
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