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Lance Corporal WILLIAM ERNEST PLOWRIGHT

Service Number: 32124
Regiment & Unit/Ship

York and Lancaster Regiment

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 20 April 1917

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY

IV. C. 15.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest and Jane Plowright, of 78, Cliffe Field Rd., Meersbrook, Sheffield.
  • Personal Inscription REST IN PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 5813
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