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Serjeant JAMES SOMERTON

Service Number: 10/1343
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Wellington Regiment, N.Z.E.F.

9th Coy. 1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 03 August 1916

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CITE BONJEAN MILITARY CEMETERY, ARMENTIERES

I. E. 30.

France

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of George and Selina Somerton. Also served at Gallipoli. Native of Oxfordshire, England.
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Buried or commemorated at

CITE BONJEAN MILITARY CEMETERY, ARMENTIERES
Nord France
Number of casualties: 2681
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