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Private WILLIAM RUTHERFORD

Service Number: 203533
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Northumberland Fusiliers

12th/13th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 26 February 1919

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE (ST. JOHN'S WESTGATE AND ELSWICK) CEMETERY

C. C. 252.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George and Mary Rutherford; husband of Isabella Rutherford, of 5, Waterloo St., Newcastle-on-Tyne.
  • Personal Inscription STARS MAY SHINE ON A SILENT GRAVE ON ONE WE LOVED BUT COULD NOT SAVE
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Buried or commemorated at

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE (ST. JOHN'S WESTGATE AND ELSWICK) CEMETERY
Northumberland United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 288
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