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Serjeant HERBERT GEORGE PHELPS

Service Number: 17027
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps

2nd Coy.

Date of Death

Died 20 August 1916

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MILLENCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

A. 47.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment formerly 2nd Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph G. and Emily Phelps, of 118, Cheshire Rd., Smethwick, Staffs.
  • Personal Inscription AFTER THE CROSS, THE CROWN MONS TO THE SOMME THEN REST
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Buried or commemorated at

MILLENCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 345
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