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Private WILLIAM ARTHUR THOMAS CREESEY

Service Number: 24912
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

22nd Coy.

Date of Death

Died 12 December 1916

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MAILLY WOOD CEMETERY, MAILLY-MAILLET

II. B. 4.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Frederick J. Creesey, of 33, Cumberland Park, Willesden, London.
  • Personal Inscription NOT ONCE OR TWICE IN OUR ROUGH ISLAND STORY THE PATH OF DUTY WAS THE WAY TO GLORY
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Buried or commemorated at

MAILLY WOOD CEMETERY, MAILLY-MAILLET
Somme France
Number of casualties: 703
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