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Private ERNEST DUKE HITCHCOCK

Service Number: 21358
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Somerset Light Infantry

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 29 June 1916

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BOIS-GUILLAUME COMMUNAL CEMETERY

I. E. 4A.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Elizabeth Duke Hitchcock, of Tatworth, Chard, Somerset.
  • Personal Inscription JESU MERCY
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Buried or commemorated at

BOIS-GUILLAUME COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Seine-Maritime France
Number of casualties: 320
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