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Lance Corporal WILLIAM WHITEHOUSE BLAIR

Service Number: 15865
Regiment & Unit/Ship

New Zealand Rifle Brigade

3rd Bn. 3rd

Date of Death

Died 24 November 1917

Age 42 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BUTTES NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, POLYGON WOOD

II. C. 6.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of Robert and Ann Blair; husband of Agnes Boyes Blair, of 11, Harper St., Timaru, New Zealand.
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BUTTES NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, POLYGON WOOD
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 2112
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