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Corporal GERALD EDMONDS PATTINSON

Service Number: 206126
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Heavy Branch)

"C" Coy.

Date of Death

Died 15 September 1916

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COMBLES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

VII. A. 21.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles Reginald and Helene Pattinson, of Bridge Park, Gosforth, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
  • Personal Inscription HE TAKING DEATH ON HIMSELF SAVED HIS COMRADES
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COMBLES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1510
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