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Private ROBERT MARPER

Service Number: 40022
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lincolnshire Regiment

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 18 November 1916

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VARENNES MILITARY CEMETERY

I. G. 23.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Councillor Frederick Dixon and Edith Mary Marper, of Northorpe, nr. Gainsborough.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED FOR THE FREEDOM OF HIS FELLOWMEN
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Buried or commemorated at

VARENNES MILITARY CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1220
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