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Private SYDNEY CARTER

Service Number: 20418
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gloucestershire Regiment

3rd/5th Bn. attd. 2nd/4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 13 January 1917

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HEM COMMUNAL CEMETERY, SOMME

C. 5.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Ida Carter, of Maryland Cottages, Washaway; husband of Leonora May Carter, of Maryland Cottages, Washaway, Cornwall.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
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Buried or commemorated at

HEM COMMUNAL CEMETERY, SOMME
Somme France
Number of casualties: 32
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