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Sapper WILLIAM ATHERTON

Service Number: 432151
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

20th T.F. Depot

Date of Death

Died 10 October 1919

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. HELENS CEMETERY

32. RC. 434.

United Kingdom

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Photographer: Arthur Berks

Headstone

Photographer: Stephen Murgatroyd

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Medal and Bar
  • Additional Info Son ot John and Ellen Atherton; husband of Martha Atherton, of 3, King St., St. Helens. Born at St. Helens.
  • Personal Inscription MAY HIS SOUL AND ALL THE SOULS OF THE FAITHFUL REST IN PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

ST. HELENS CEMETERY
Lancashire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 332
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