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Serjeant WILLIAM GEORGE COLE

Service Number: 72571
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps

8th Coy.

Date of Death

Died 20 April 1917

Age 37 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

XIX. E. 1A.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edwin and Mary Cole; husband of Janet Grace Cole, of 13, Wellington St., Skipton, Yorks. Born at Hopesay, Salop.
  • Personal Inscription IN DEATHS DARK VALE I FEAR NO ILL WITH THEE DEAR LORD BESIDE ME
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Buried or commemorated at

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