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Private WILLIAM FARNSWORTH

Service Number: 22422
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Coldstream Guards

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 27 September 1918

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SANDERS KEEP MILITARY CEMETERY, GRAINCOURT-LES-HAVRINCOURT

II. D. 8.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Annie Farnsworth, of Huthwaite; husband of Catherine Lynam Farnsworth, of 37, Charnwood St., Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE THAT ENGLAND'S SOUL SHOULD LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

SANDERS KEEP MILITARY CEMETERY, GRAINCOURT-LES-HAVRINCOURT
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 143
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