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Lance Corporal WILLIAM JAMES MEEKINS

Service Number: 16007
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Cambridgeshire Regiment

1st/1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 23 September 1918

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

EPEHY WOOD FARM CEMETERY, EPEHY

I. J. 8 (Jt.)

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William James Meekins, of 22, Fletcher Rd., Acton Green, London. Born at Bury St. Edmund's.
  • Personal Inscription GONE FROM US BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN REST IN PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

EPEHY WOOD FARM CEMETERY, EPEHY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 997
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