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Private WILLIAM HUGH STAINES

Service Number: 41836
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Norfolk Regiment

"C" Coy. 12th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 15 August 1918

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LE GRAND HASARD MILITARY CEMETERY, MORBECQUE

Plot 2. Row E. Grave 7.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Youngest son of William and Amelia Staines, of Sutton, Surrey.
  • Personal Inscription AND GOD WATCHED OVER HIM AND TOOK HIM SAFELY HOME
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Buried or commemorated at

LE GRAND HASARD MILITARY CEMETERY, MORBECQUE
Nord France
Number of casualties: 442
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