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Corporal DAVID COPELAND

Service Number: 736
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

1st/3rd (Durham) Coy.

Date of Death

Died 12 January 1917

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY

VII. F. 13.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles Smith Copeland and Eleanor Copeland, of Jarrow-on-Tyne, Durham.
  • Personal Inscription OBEDIENT UNTO DEATH
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Buried or commemorated at

PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1763
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