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Private EDWIN CHARLES SOPER

Service Number: 38431
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gloucestershire Regiment

2nd/6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 19 August 1917

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OXFORD ROAD CEMETERY

I. A. 6.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alfred Emile Soper and Elizabeth Soper, of 92, Addington Rd., Reading ; husband of Elsie Annie Pickthorne (formerly Soper), of 7, Midland Terrace, Keighley. His brother John Elford Soper also fell.
  • Personal Inscription BRIGHT BE THE PLACE OF THY SOUL
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Buried or commemorated at

OXFORD ROAD CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 852
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