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Private WILLIAM BLACKBURN

Service Number: S/11133
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Seaforth Highlanders

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 19 April 1917

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

XIX. E. 3A.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Susannah and the late James Blackburn, of Nelson, Lancs.
  • Personal Inscription SAVIOUR IN THY GRACIOUS KEEPING LEAVE I NOW MY LOVED ONE SLEEPING
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Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 11554
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