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Lieutenant VAN DYKE FERNALD

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

139th Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 23 July 1918

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TEZZE BRITISH CEMETERY

Plot 6. Row C. Grave 15.

Italy

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment and 3rd Bn. The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Chester Bailey and Josephine Harker Fernald, of San Francisco, California. An American, he became a naturalized Englishman in order to join the British Army.
  • Personal Inscription AGAINST THE BARBARIANS FREELY HE GAVE UP AN EVER JOYOUS LIFE.
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Buried or commemorated at

TEZZE BRITISH CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 355
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