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Private W J BOWRING

Service Number: 155595
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

12th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 August 1918

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MORLANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY NO.2

B. 15.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry and Catherine Bowring, of 8, Lambert St., Barnsbury, London.
  • Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR DEAR WILLIE DEEPLY MOURNED BY DAD AND MUM
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Buried or commemorated at

MORLANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY NO.2
Somme France
Number of casualties: 56
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