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Private W OAKES

Service Number: 65651
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Welsh Fusiliers

7th Garr. Bn.

Date of Death

Died 25 October 1917

Age 42 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DUHALLOW A.D.S. CEMETERY

II. A. 16.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment transf. to (39342) 66th Coy. Labour Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Hannah and the late Charles Oakes, of Urmston, Manchester; husband of Elizabeth Bailey (formerly Oakes), of 27, Chadwick Lane, Urmston.
  • Personal Inscription IN LIFE, IN DEATH O LORD ABIDE WITH ME
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Buried or commemorated at

DUHALLOW A.D.S. CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1602
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