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Private WILLIAM ROBERT OAKES

Service Number: 292538
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gordon Highlanders

1st/7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 01 July 1917

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NEW IRISH FARM CEMETERY

XXV. B. 2.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edwin Warden Oakes and Margaret Oakes, of Lerwick, Shetland Isles.
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Buried or commemorated at

NEW IRISH FARM CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 4759
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