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Private WILLIAM WHARTON

Service Number: 3448
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps

46th Coy.

Date of Death

Died 02 September 1916

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MILLENCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

F. 34.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ellen Wharton, of Quarry Cottages, Thornton, Liverpool, Lancs.
  • Personal Inscription LORD IN THY GRACIOUS KEEPING WE LEAVE THEE OUR LOVED ONE SLEEPING
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Buried or commemorated at

MILLENCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 345
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