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Private WILLIAM BLACKBURN

Service Number: 59933
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Northumberland Fusiliers

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 16 February 1918

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TYNE COT CEMETERY

II. E. 2.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George and Lilian Blackburn, of Oak House, Holbeck, Leeds.
  • Personal Inscription NEVER FORGOT BY THOSE WHO LOVED HIM BEST
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Buried or commemorated at

TYNE COT CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 11978
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