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Private JAMES PLACE

Service Number: 20880
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 12 October 1916

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING (ST. MICHAEL) CHURCH BURIAL GROUND

Grave 420.

United Kingdom

Houghton-le-Spring (St. Michael) Church Burial Ground, County Durham: restored headstone following vandalism, 24 February 2016 (CEM 3545 refers)

Photographer: UKNA

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Alice Place, of 77, Sunderland St., Houghton-le-Spring.
  • Personal Inscription BELOVED SON OF JOSEPH AND ALICE PLACE PEACE PERFECT PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING (ST. MICHAEL) CHURCH BURIAL GROUND
Durham United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 4
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