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Leading Seaman ARTHUR WILLIAM ROOKE

Service Number: LZ/2714
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

Nelson Bn. R.N. Div.

Date of Death

Died 05 February 1917

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VARENNES MILITARY CEMETERY

I. H. 53.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alfred Henry and Ellen Rooke, of Bethnal Green, London.
  • Personal Inscription GOD BE WITH YOU TILL WE MEET AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

VARENNES MILITARY CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1220
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