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Private WILLIAM WRIGHT THACKER

Service Number: 17852
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 March 1917

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PHILOSOPHE BRITISH CEMETERY, MAZINGARBE

I. N. 18.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Adopted son of Mrs. P. Wright, of 16, Whitfield St., Newark, Notts.
  • Personal Inscription NEARER MY GOD TO THEE
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Buried or commemorated at

PHILOSOPHE BRITISH CEMETERY, MAZINGARBE
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 2001
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