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Corporal WILLIAM JAMES DOWNTON

Service Number: 25918
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Durham Light Infantry

"D" Coy. 10th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 16 October 1916

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

VIII. B. 1A.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John William and Elizabeth Jane Downton, of 7, Fordington Hill, Dorchester, Dorset.
  • Personal Inscription NOT AS I WILL BUT AS THOU WILT
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