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Lance Corporal WILLIAM GEORGE POWELL

Service Number: P/5822
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Military Police Corps

Military Foot Police

Date of Death

Died 09 April 1918

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LILLERS COMMUNAL CEMETERY

V. F. 20.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Elizabeth Powell; husband of Ada Powell, of 55, Ernest Rd., Buckland, Portsmouth. Native of Castle Cary, Somerset. Late of Portsmouth Borough Police.
  • Personal Inscription THOUGH DEATH DIVIDES FOND MEMORIES CLING LOVING WIFE ADA
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Buried or commemorated at

LILLERS COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 909
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