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Private WILLIAM SMITH

Service Number: 18677
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

11th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 16 March 1916

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HAMEL MILITARY CEMETERY, BEAUMONT-HAMEL

I. E. 16.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Elizabeth Jane Smith, of 14, Morton Crescent, Fence Houses, Co. Durham, and the late John Robert Smith.
  • Personal Inscription SAFE IN GOD'S KEEPING
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Buried or commemorated at

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