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Private ALFRED WILLIS

Service Number: 17693
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Essex Regiment

9th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 03 July 1916

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY

IX. E. 3.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George Henry Willis; husband of Ethel Minnie Bowdidge (formerly Willis), of 43, New Cross Rd., Stoughton, Guildford, Surrey.
  • Personal Inscription FOR KING AND COUNTRY HE DID HIS BEST MAY GOD GRANT HIM ETERNAL REST
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Buried or commemorated at

OVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 3561
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