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Lance Corporal LAWRENCE UPTON

Service Number: 63055
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

97th Coy.

Date of Death

Died 18 September 1917

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COXYDE MILITARY CEMETERY

III. J. 7.

Belgium

Misc. images from Tehran War Cemetery; images donated by Sarah Murray. Images can be used for Commission purposes but Sarah would like credit.

Photographer: Sarah Murray

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Mr. C. and Mrs. E. M. Upton, of 43, Hatchgate Cottages, Cuckfield, Sussex.
  • Personal Inscription HE WAS A LOVING & DUTIFUL SON HIS WAS AN HONOURABLE DEATH
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Buried or commemorated at

COXYDE MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1673
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