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Gunner WILLIAM HENRY BURGESS

Service Number: 94972
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Garrison Artillery

135th Siege Bty.

Date of Death

Died 14 November 1917

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ZUYDCOOTE MILITARY CEMETERY

II. D. 2.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Henry and Fanny Burgess, of Leicester; husband of Annie Swingler (formerly Burgess), of 197, Bardolph St., Leicester.
  • Personal Inscription REST IN PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

ZUYDCOOTE MILITARY CEMETERY
Nord France
Number of casualties: 327
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