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Private WILLIAM OLIVER CORNEY

Service Number: 48927
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Devonshire Regiment

Date of Death

Died 25 April 1918

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DOULLENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION NO.1

VI. B. 73.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment transf. to (100302) 229th Div. Employment Coy. Labour Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Samuel and Alice Corney, of Oakfield, nr. Ryde, I. of W.
  • Personal Inscription TO OUR DEAR SON FROM HIS MOTHER, FATHER BROTHERS AND SISTER.
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Buried or commemorated at

DOULLENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION NO.1
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1392
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