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Sapper WILLIAM EDWARD BURN

Service Number: 79893
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

170th Coy.

Date of Death

Died 20 August 1915

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY

IV. D. 49.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Frank Dicken Burn and Mary Burn, of 3, Windsor Terrace, Felling, Co. Durham.
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Buried or commemorated at

BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 3233
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