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Private WILLIAM FRANCIS ASHTON

Service Number: 8727
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South African Infantry

1st Regt.

Date of Death

Died 18 October 1916

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WARLENCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY

I. E. 36.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service South African
  • Additional Info Son of Henry and Lydia Ashton, of Mafeking, Cape Province.
  • Personal Inscription SUNT LACRIMAE RERUM ET MENTEM MORTALIA TANGUNT
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Buried or commemorated at

WARLENCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 3511
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