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Lance Corporal WILLIAM OLIVER ROWLANDSON

Service Number: 28626
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South Lancashire Regiment

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 27 May 1917

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY

IV. B. 41.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Sarah Rowlandson, of 29, Beech Hall St., Wigan.
  • Personal Inscription NOT FORGOTTEN THOUGH AT REST IN THE FIGHT FOR RIGHT HE DID HIS BEST

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Buried or commemorated at

BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 5813
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