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Gunner SAMUEL BAILEY ESSAM

Service Number: 79160
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Garrison Artillery

159th Heavy Bty.

Date of Death

Died 14 May 1917

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAILLEUL ROAD EAST CEMETERY, ST. LAURENT-BLANGY

I. J. 3.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the late Samuel Bailey Essam.
  • Personal Inscription "INTO THY HANDS O LORD I COME" FROM LOVED ONES AT HOME
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Buried or commemorated at

BAILLEUL ROAD EAST CEMETERY, ST. LAURENT-BLANGY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 1298
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