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Lance Corporal WILLIAM BIRCH

Service Number: 22507
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

164th Coy.

Date of Death

Died 01 August 1917

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

Panel 56.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment formerly 2nd/5th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Councillor Thomas Birch, J.P., and Ellen Birch, of 29, Openshaw St., Bury, Lancs.
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