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Second Lieutenant HUGH FREDERICK RALEIGH AMESBURY

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Bedfordshire Regiment

5th Bn. attd. "D" Coy. 8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 20 November 1917

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RIBECOURT BRITISH CEMETERY

I. B. 5.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Born at Gujranwala, Punjab, India. Son of Major Frederick Cholmondeley Dering Amesbury (Indian Army), and of Henrietta Ferris Amesbury; husband of Emma Mary Amesbury, of London. Served with 1st Division Canadian Expeditionary Force at Ypres and on the Somme. Wounded at Thiepval July, 1916.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
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