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Master WILLIAM COMER RUFF

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Mercantile Marine

Motor Lighter X/98

Date of Death

Died 05 March 1917

Age 49 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CALAIS SOUTHERN CEMETERY

Plot F. Row 4. Grave 16.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Elizabeth Ruff, of Littlehampton, Sussex.
  • Personal Inscription REST AFTER LABOUR GAIN AFTER LOSS ONE OF THE BEST
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Buried or commemorated at

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