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Lance Corporal WILLIAM YATES

Service Number: 9135
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

62nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 20 July 1918

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COURMAS BRITISH CEMETERY

II. E. 2.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Albert Edward and Annie Yates, of 11, Old Mill St., Blackburn.
  • Personal Inscription REST IN PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

COURMAS BRITISH CEMETERY
Marne France
Number of casualties: 207
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