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Private WILLIAM FRANCIS SQUIRES

Service Number: 47658
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry)

Date of Death

Died 02 October 1917

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BARD COTTAGE CEMETERY

IV. I. 40.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 34th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Joseph and Eliza J. Squires, of 23, Ravenslea Rd., Wandsworth Common, London. Born at Lewisham, London.
  • Personal Inscription A GOOD SON AND A BRAVE SOLDIER
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Buried or commemorated at

BARD COTTAGE CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1645
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