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Private GEORGE UPTON

Service Number: 202550
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gordon Highlanders

1st/4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 23 March 1918

Age 41 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DOULLENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION NO.1

V. C. 58.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles and Sarah Upton, of Chicheley St., Birmingham; husband of Lizzie Upton, of 75, Kingsley St., Pleck, Walsall, Staffs.
  • Personal Inscription DEAR HUSBAND YOU DIED THAT WE MAY LIVE WE SHALL BE RE-UNITED FROM WIFE & CHILD. WALSALL.
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Buried or commemorated at

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