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Gunner HORACE RUSSELL MAYERS

Service Number: 23069
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Field Artillery

12th A.F.A. Bde.

Date of Death

Died 23 April 1917

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VAULX HILL CEMETERY

II. G. 9.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of George Russell Mayers and Louisa Elizabeth Penlope Mayers, of Cairns, Queensland.
  • Personal Inscription ONE OF MANY WHO PERISHED NOT IN VAIN AS A TYPE OF OUR CHIVALRY
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Buried or commemorated at

VAULX HILL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 856
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