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Private JOSEPH PERCY LAY

Service Number: 19016
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 30 May 1917

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY

I. C. 35.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Job and Harriett Lay, of 56, Shaftesbury St., High Wycombe, Bucks. Native of Radnage, High Wycombe.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY
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Buried or commemorated at

WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 1951
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