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Gunner WILLIAM FARRINGTON

Service Number: 347482
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Artillery

Date of Death

Died 19 August 1916

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY

IX. C. 12A.

Belgium

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 3rd Canadian Ammunition Sub Park.
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Jeremiah and Isabella Farrington, of 38, Amey St., Pawtucket, Rhode Island, U.S.A. Native of Accrington, England.
  • Personal Inscription MEMORIES OF OUR LOVED ONE BRING MANY A SILENT TEAR
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Buried or commemorated at

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 10786
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