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Private WILLIAM EDGERTON BLAKEMORE

Service Number: 3/19425
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South Wales Borderers

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 23 August 1916

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WHITE HOUSE CEMETERY, ST. JEAN-LES-YPRES

I. H. 14.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edgar and Edith M. Blakemore, of Lady Oak Villa, Minsterley, Salop. Also served at Gallipoli (1915 and 1916).
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE THAT WE MAY LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

WHITE HOUSE CEMETERY, ST. JEAN-LES-YPRES
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1172
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