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Private WILLIAM WHERRY

Service Number: 240583
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lincolnshire Regiment

1st/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 12 October 1917

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PHILOSOPHE BRITISH CEMETERY, MAZINGARBE

II. V. 2.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 138th Trench Mortar Bty.
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Martha Wherry, of 267, Corporation Rd., Grimsby.
  • Personal Inscription HIS SUN WENT DOWN WHILE IT WAS YET DAY
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Buried or commemorated at

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