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Lance Corporal ERNEST ALFRED BILLING

Service Number: 10/3832
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Wellington Regiment, N.Z.E.F.

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 12 April 1918

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GEZAINCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

I. L. 19.

France

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Awards Military Medal
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas John and Emma Jane Billing, of Hine Street, New Plymouth, New Zealand, Native of Rahotu, New Zealand. His brother Frederick Rolland Billing also fell.
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GEZAINCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 678
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