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Lance Corporal WILLIAM JAMES VERNON

Service Number: 23951
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Welsh Regiment

16th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 17 March 1917

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ESSEX FARM CEMETERY

III. L. 7.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Vernon; husband of Mabel Florence Vernon, of 78, Splott Rd., Cardiff.
  • Personal Inscription I HAVE FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT
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Buried or commemorated at

ESSEX FARM CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1206
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