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Private WILLIAM GEORGE BOWLES

Service Number: 42097
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Bedfordshire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 22 August 1918

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ALBERT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

II. A. 6.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George and Minnie Jane Bowles, of 54, Buxton Rd., Luton.
  • Personal Inscription A NOBLE YOUNG LIFE CROWNED WITH HEROIC DEATH STILL LIVES
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Buried or commemorated at

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Somme France
Number of casualties: 888
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