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Private WILLIAM JAMES YORK

Service Number: 3497
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South African Infantry

3rd Regt.

Date of Death

Died 22 September 1917

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NINE ELMS BRITISH CEMETERY

I. C. 5.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service South African
  • Additional Info Son of Alfred and Adelaide Eliza York, of Christiana, Transvaal Province.
  • Personal Inscription HE HAS DONE HIS DUTY IN HONOUR OF HIS KING AND COUNTRY AND PARENTS
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Buried or commemorated at

NINE ELMS BRITISH CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1615
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