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Private WILLIE SYKES

Service Number: 4199
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)

1st/4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 10 June 1916

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

AUTHUILE MILITARY CEMETERY, AUTHUILLE

D. 18.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the late Adam and Elizabeth Sykes; husband of Ada Sykes, of 6, Hopkinson St., Ovenden, Halifax.
  • Personal Inscription DEATH CANNOT DIVIDE
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Buried or commemorated at

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