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Lance Corporal LUKE WHITEHEAD

Service Number: 131738
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

235th Army Troops Coy.

Date of Death

Died 20 August 1917

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BIRR CROSS ROADS CEMETERY

III. D. 2.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Emma Whitehead, of Station Rd., Netherton, Huddersfield.
  • Personal Inscription "MY SOUL FOLLOWETH HARD AFTER THEE" PS.LXIII.8
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Buried or commemorated at

BIRR CROSS ROADS CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 834
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