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Private JOHN ROBERT CHAPLIN

Service Number: 16639
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Essex Regiment

11th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 August 1916

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HAMEL MILITARY CEMETERY, BEAUMONT-HAMEL

I. D. 36.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Peter and Annie Chaplin, of The Green, Havering, Romford, Essex.
  • Personal Inscription FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT OF FAITH LAY HOLD ON ETERNAL LIFE
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Buried or commemorated at

HAMEL MILITARY CEMETERY, BEAUMONT-HAMEL
Somme France
Number of casualties: 494
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