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Private WILLIAM LANCASTER

Service Number: 38687
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South Wales Borderers

10th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 22 April 1918

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DOULLENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION NO.1

VI. B. 46.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Sarah Jane Lancaster, of Penrith, Cumberland.
  • Personal Inscription I SHALL GO TO HIM BUT HE SHALL NOT RETURN TO ME.
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Buried or commemorated at

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