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Serjeant WILLIAM ROBERT NAPPIN

Service Number: 68010
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Field Artillery

87th Bty. 2nd Bde.

Date of Death

Died 08 October 1916

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GUARDS' CEMETERY, LESBOEUFS

X. L. 1.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Medal
  • Additional Info Son of Mr. R. W. Nappin and Mrs. E. Nappin, of Aylesbury; husband of Minnie Nappin, of 19, St. John's St., Aylesbury, Bucks.
  • Personal Inscription DEATH DIVIDES BUT MEMORY CLINGS HIS LOVING WIFE MINNIE
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Buried or commemorated at

GUARDS' CEMETERY, LESBOEUFS
Somme France
Number of casualties: 3143
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