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Private GEORGE ELGIE WARD

Service Number: 1882
Regiment & Unit/Ship

York and Lancaster Regiment

12th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 01 July 1916

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RAILWAY HOLLOW CEMETERY, HEBUTERNE

D. 18.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Anthony and Henrietta Ward, of Sheffield; husband of Ethel Jean Ward, of 3, Greenock St., Hillsborough, Sheffield.
  • Personal Inscription FLOWERS OF THY HEART O GOD THEY LIVE THEIR FRAGRANCE EVER WITH US
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Buried or commemorated at

RAILWAY HOLLOW CEMETERY, HEBUTERNE
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 109
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