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Private WILLIAM NICHOLSON

Service Number: 26427
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 11 August 1918

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BOUCHOIR NEW BRITISH CEMETERY

V. E. 24.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Patrick Nicholson, of 10 Commercial St., Blackburn.
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Buried or commemorated at

BOUCHOIR NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 764
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