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Private WILLIAM JAMES HANDS

Service Number: 230909
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Dorset Yeomanry (Queen's Own)

1st/1st

Date of Death

Died 28 November 1917

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KANTARA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

F. 80.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edwin James and Letitia Mary Hands, of Ilchester, Somerset.
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Buried or commemorated at

KANTARA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 2004
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