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Serjeant WILLIAM SPEAKE

Service Number: 11081
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

Date of Death

Died 26 August 1916

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PRESTON GUBBALS (ST. MARTIN) CHURCHYARD

New ground, North of Church.

United Kingdom

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment formerly (5790) King's Shropshire Light Infantry
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Speake; husband of Alice Jane Speake.
  • Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR DEAR SON FROM ALL AT HOME ASLEEP IN JESUS
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Buried or commemorated at

PRESTON GUBBALS (ST. MARTIN) CHURCHYARD
Shropshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 2
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