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Corporal ROBERT GEORGE ELIJAH SMELE

Service Number: 21790
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 03 November 1918

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CAUDRY BRITISH CEMETERY

IV. G. 4.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert James and Ann Smele, of 39, Air Balloon Hill, St. George, Bristol.
  • Personal Inscription SLEEP ON, SWEET BE THY REST THE BLOW WAS HARD BUT GOD KNEW BEST MOTHER
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Buried or commemorated at

CAUDRY BRITISH CEMETERY
Nord France
Number of casualties: 713
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