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Corporal WILLIAM WALTER (WALLY) HARPER

Service Number: S/23975
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

"C" Coy. 1st/8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 19 August 1918

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN

R. III. F. 3.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment previously served as Serjt. (enlisted Oct., 1915) with 19th Wing Royal Flying Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Richard Robert Harper, of 142, Cambridge Rd., Seven King's, Ilford, Essex. Educated at the St. Ann's Schools, South Tottenham. Late Claims Clerk for Hants and Bucks National Amalgamated Insurance Society. Was a linguist.
  • Personal Inscription WALLY XIX. WING R.F.C. ONE OF THE BEST GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
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