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Lance Corporal WILLIAM GORDON BURNS

Service Number: 14878
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Durham Light Infantry

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 05 August 1915

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOP STORE CEMETERY

Plot I. Row D. Grave 6.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Jane Annie Burns, of Tynemouth Union Hospital, 50, Preston Road, Wallsend-on-Tyne.
  • Personal Inscription WAITING FOR THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.
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Buried or commemorated at

HOP STORE CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 249
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