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Lance Corporal WILLIE DRAKE

Service Number: 24888
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

"B" Coy. 1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 17 October 1918

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HIGHLAND CEMETERY, LE CATEAU

III. D. 12.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Sarah Jane Butterworth (formerly Drake), of 15, Greenside, Oakenshaw. Bradford. Yorks.
  • Personal Inscription REST IN PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

HIGHLAND CEMETERY, LE CATEAU
Nord France
Number of casualties: 624
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