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Private WILLIAM SOMERVILLE

Service Number: 892086
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Infantry

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 29 September 1918

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY

I. A. 12.

France

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of William and Rachel Somerville, of Greenlaw, Berwickshire, Scotland; husband of Elsie Seddon Somerville, of Molson, Manitoba.
  • Personal Inscription BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

SANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Nord France
Number of casualties: 236
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