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Private JAMES WILLIAM MELAY

Service Number: 38776
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gloucestershire Regiment

1st/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 15 June 1918

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BOSCON BRITISH CEMETERY

Plot 1. Row D. Grave 7.

Italy

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Florence Melay, of Chelsea, London, and husband of Elizabeth Melay, of Chelsea, London.
  • Personal Inscription REQUIEM AETERNAM DONA EI DOMINE ET LUX PERPETUA LUCEAT EI JESUS MERCY, MARY HELP
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Buried or commemorated at

BOSCON BRITISH CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 166
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