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Serjeant WILLIAM FREDERIC COCKBURN

Service Number: 55452
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

196th Coy.

Date of Death

Died 31 July 1917

Age 37 years old

Buried or commemorated at

POTIJZE CHATEAU LAWN CEMETERY

A. 23.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Hannah K. Cockburn, of 131, Hewitt Avenue, Wood Green, London.
  • Personal Inscription STILL LIVING IN OUR MEMORY
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Buried or commemorated at

POTIJZE CHATEAU LAWN CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 229
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