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Sapper CORNELIUS AIRLEY

Service Number: 134025
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

56th Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 03 May 1916

Age 38 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WYTSCHAETE MILITARY CEMETERY

III. D. 20.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Christina Sturgeon Airley, of "Woodside," William St., Dalbeattie, Kirkcudbrightshire.
  • Personal Inscription A SECRET THOUGHT A SILENT TEAR KEEPS HIS MEMORY EVER NEAR
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Buried or commemorated at

WYTSCHAETE MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1016
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