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Private G PRIEST

Service Number: 12693
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Welsh Fusiliers

Date of Death

Died 19 July 1916

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BILSTON CEMETERY

A. 51C. 4.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Samuel and Emily Priest; husband of Caroline Priest, of The Green, Little Sutton, Birkenhead. Born at Bilston.
  • Personal Inscription A DISTANT GRAVE IS A TOUCHING THING WHERE LOVING HANDS NO FLOWERS CAN BRING
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Buried or commemorated at

BILSTON CEMETERY
Staffordshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 111
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