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Sapper HENRY PEIRCE

Service Number: 236418
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

353rd Electrical and Mechanical Coy.

Date of Death

Died 19 August 1918

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CERISY-GAILLY MILITARY CEMETERY

II. O. 21.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Philip Peirce; husband of Flora E. M. Peirce, of 44, Earlsbrook Rd., Red Hill, Surrey. Enlisted in 1914 with King's Royal Rifle Corps.
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Buried or commemorated at

CERISY-GAILLY MILITARY CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 745
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