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Private W J AXE

Service Number: 22537
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Somerset Light Infantry

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 19 August 1916

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

AUTHUILE MILITARY CEMETERY, AUTHUILLE

F. 12.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. Wiltshire Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Reginald and Elizabeth Axe, of 11, Orchard St., Yeovil.
  • Personal Inscription MY SON GAVE HIS LIFE THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

AUTHUILE MILITARY CEMETERY, AUTHUILLE
Somme France
Number of casualties: 472
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