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Sapper HUGH LESLIE BIRKETT

Service Number: 9/1777
Regiment & Unit/Ship

New Zealand Engineers

Date of Death

Died 11 May 1917

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY

IV. B. 81.

France

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of Henry James and Emma Birkett, of Opunake, Taranaki, New Zealand.
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Buried or commemorated at

LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 3548
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