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Gunner FRANK YOUNG PAYN

Service Number: 1166
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South African Heavy Artillery

73rd Siege Bty.

Date of Death

Died 12 October 1917

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY

VI. C. 30.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service South African
  • Additional Info Son of Alexander Francis and Ellen Ann Payn, of East Griqualand, South Africa.
  • Personal Inscription HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY HIS SOUL TO GOD DEATH IS SWALLOWED OF IN VICTORY, CCR. XV.54.
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