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Private WILLIAM ENGLISH

Service Number: 5859
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gloucestershire Regiment

2nd/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 June 1916

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MERVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

VI. Q. 64.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Elizabeth Ann English, of 9, Blyth St., Seaton Delaval, Northumberland, and the late Joseph English.
  • Personal Inscription TILL THE DAY DAWNS
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Buried or commemorated at

MERVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Nord France
Number of casualties: 1290
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