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Sapper WILLIAM NICHOLAS HANKS

Service Number: WR/322073
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

Inland Waterways and Docks

Date of Death

Died 29 August 1919

Age 40 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GLOUCESTER OLD CEMETERY

New Ground. War Graves Plot. Grave 1027.

United Kingdom

Gloucester Old Cemetery, Gloucestershire, UK (CEM 8082): photos of individual Commission headstones in Chapel Side (WW1) (courtesy of Mr John Williams, taken between Sept 2017 & Feb 2018)

Photographer: Mr John Williams

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of M. A. Hanks, of 237, Barton St., Gloucester.
  • Personal Inscription REST IN PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

GLOUCESTER OLD CEMETERY
Gloucestershire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 273
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