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Private WILLIAM JOHN WILSON

Service Number: 28524
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Welsh Regiment

14th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 27 August 1918

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CONTALMAISON CHATEAU CEMETERY

I. B. 38.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Emma Jane Groves, of 4, Caerphilly St., Splott, Cardiff.
  • Personal Inscription THY WAY NOT MINE O LORD HOWEVER DARK IT BE LEAD ME BY THINE OWN HAND CHOOSE OUT THE PATH FOR ME
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Buried or commemorated at

CONTALMAISON CHATEAU CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 289
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