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Private WILLIAM BURTON

Service Number: 37746
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Durham Light Infantry

"B" Coy. 18th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 03 May 1917

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CANADIAN CEMETERY NO.2, NEUVILLE-ST. VAAST

2. E. 9.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edwin and Mary Ann Burton of Nottingham; husband of Fanny Burton, of Reservoir House, Winterburn, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription LOVED AND REMEMBERED ALWAYS BY FAN, MILL AND BREN. R.I.P.
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Buried or commemorated at

CANADIAN CEMETERY NO.2, NEUVILLE-ST. VAAST
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 2966
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