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Private ALFRED WILLIAM SIMS

Service Number: 47718
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Welsh Regiment

2nd Bn

Date of Death

Died 18 February 1917

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HEM FARM MILITARY CEMETERY, HEM-MONACU

I. J. 22.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment formerly 2nd/1st East Anglian Field Coy. Royal Engineers
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Ellen Sims, of 10, Thornton St., Kempston, Beds.
  • Personal Inscription AT REST
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Buried or commemorated at

HEM FARM MILITARY CEMETERY, HEM-MONACU
Somme France
Number of casualties: 598
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