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Sapper M A SELBY

Service Number: 2672
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

50th (Northumbrian) Signal Coy.

Date of Death

Died 01 April 1916

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SPOILBANK CEMETERY

I. E. 16.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Thomas and Jane Selby, of 39, Falmouth Rd., Heaton, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
  • Personal Inscription IN HIS 21ST YEAR HE FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT
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Buried or commemorated at

SPOILBANK CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 520
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