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Gunner WILLIAM CLAUDE BIRKBECK

Service Number: 106984
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Field Artillery

215th Bde. Ammunition Col.

Date of Death

Died 20 July 1917

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY

X. E. 5.

Iraq

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the late Franz Groenings and of Elizabeth A. Birkbeck (formerly Groenings), of 60, Gloucester Place, Marylebone, London. Born at Glasgow.
  • Personal Inscription I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE

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Buried or commemorated at

BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY
Iraq
Number of casualties: 7420
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