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Corporal WILLIAM BUMSTEAD

Service Number: 16679
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps

35th Coy.

Date of Death

Died 13 May 1917

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

XVIII. M. 20A.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Bumstead, of Rose Cottage, Great Blakenham, Ipswich, and the late Louise Bumstead.
  • Personal Inscription EVER REMEMBERED BY HIS FATHER BROTHERS AND SISTER
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Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 11554
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