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Corporal ROBERT INDIGO RAPLEY SMITHERS

Service Number: 10820
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Welsh Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 August 1916

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LONDON CEMETERY AND EXTENSION, LONGUEVAL

5.H.21.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Martha Smithers, of 8, Brook Place, High St., Beckenham, Kent.
  • Personal Inscription THOUGH IN A FOREIGN LAND HE LIES HIS MEMORY IS NEVER FORGOTTEN

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Buried or commemorated at

LONDON CEMETERY AND EXTENSION, LONGUEVAL
Somme France
Number of casualties: 4040
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