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Private W ROOT

Service Number: 70079
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

16th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 15 September 1917

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LA CLYTTE MILITARY CEMETERY

II. D. 4.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Medal
  • Additional Info Son of John and Maria Root, of Occold, Eye, Suffolk.
  • Personal Inscription FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH
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Buried or commemorated at

LA CLYTTE MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1082
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