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Sapper WALTER RICHARD POTTERTON

Service Number: WR/272617
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

3rd Railway Coy.

Date of Death

Died 02 March 1919

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LES BARAQUES MILITARY CEMETERY, SANGATTE

VIII. G. 3.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Richard and Jane Potterton, of Tattershall, nr. Lincoln.
  • Personal Inscription WE'LL NEVER SAY GOODBYE IN HEAVEN
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Buried or commemorated at

LES BARAQUES MILITARY CEMETERY, SANGATTE
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 1569
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