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Corporal WILLIAM BURTON

Service Number: 122247
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

Inland Water Transport

Date of Death

Died 30 December 1915

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CALAIS SOUTHERN CEMETERY

Plot D. Row 1. Grave 9.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Personal Inscription HAVE MERCY UPON HIM LORD, AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON HIM
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Buried or commemorated at

CALAIS SOUTHERN CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 943
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