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Private WILLIAM WASHINGTON MEEHAN

Service Number: 1695
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery

15th

Date of Death

Died 02 September 1918

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PERONNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

II. C. 36.

France

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  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Robert John and Catherine Frances Meehan; husband of Margaret Meehan, of 23, Gordon St., Alphington, Victoria, Australia. Born at Berringa.
  • Personal Inscription A SOLDIER AND MAN HE DIED HONOURED BY ALL HIS COUNTRY'S PRIDE
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Buried or commemorated at

PERONNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1697
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