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Sapper WILLIAM BURTON

Service Number: 217496
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

5th Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 19 June 1918

Age 41 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GEZAINCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

I. M. 21.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Elizabeth Burton, of London; husband of Alice Ettie Burton, of "Hawthorn," Feltham Hill Rd., Ashford, Middx.
  • Personal Inscription EVERYTHING THAT HAS LOVED AND HAS LOVED TO THE END WILL MEET AGAIN WAZZINI
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Buried or commemorated at

GEZAINCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 678
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