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Second Lieutenant WILLIAM GILBERT ELPHINSTONE CLAPP

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Norfolk Yeomanry

Date of Death

Died 29 April 1917

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DUISANS BRITISH CEMETERY, ETRUN

III. H. 38.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 7th Bn. Norfolk Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the Rev. William John Clapp (late Rector of Ashley, King's Somborne, Hants.), of 20, St. Ronan's Rd., Southsea, Portsmouth, and the late Louisa Isabella Clapp. Born at Sidmouth, Devon.
  • Personal Inscription THE PATH OF DUTY WAS THE WAY TO GLORY
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Buried or commemorated at

DUISANS BRITISH CEMETERY, ETRUN
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 3295
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