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Sapper JAMES PLACE

Service Number: 126786
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

Base Signal Depot

Date of Death

Died 08 December 1917

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MOROGORO CEMETERY

III. D. 3.

Tanzania

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Mary Place, of Farnworth, and the late Andrew Place; husband of Florence Gorton (formerly Place), of 123, Kildare St., Farnworth, Bolton.
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Buried or commemorated at

MOROGORO CEMETERY
Tanzania
Number of casualties: 393
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