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Private WILLIAM MEARS

Service Number: 50760
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry)

9th Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 01 March 1919

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COLOGNE SOUTHERN CEMETERY

III. A. 19.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Mears, of Merrow, Guildford; husband of Edith K. Hazeltine (formerly Mears), of New Barn, Ockley, Dorking.
  • Personal Inscription A LOVED ONE LAID TO REST THOSE THAT THINK OF HIM TO-DAY ARE THOSE THAT LOVE HIM BEST
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Buried or commemorated at

COLOGNE SOUTHERN CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 3324
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