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Private WILLIAM COPESTAKE

Service Number: 37140
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 02 June 1918

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BERLES NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

II. B. 4.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest and Eliza Ann Copestake, of 50, Union St., Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.
  • Personal Inscription REST IN PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

BERLES NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 178
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