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Lance Corporal WILLIAM JOHN RUSSELL

Service Number: 29655
Regiment & Unit/Ship

New Zealand Machine Gun Corps

No.4

Date of Death

Died 24 November 1917

Buried or commemorated at

BUTTES NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, POLYGON WOOD

XXIII. B. 6.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of James and Mary Jane Russell, of 117, Osborne St., Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand. Native of Oamaru, New Zealand.
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Buried or commemorated at

BUTTES NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, POLYGON WOOD
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 2112
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