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Private W H GILES

Service Number: L/4937
Regiment & Unit/Ship

16th (The Queen's) Lancers

Date of Death

Died 21 February 1915

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LARCH WOOD (RAILWAY CUTTING) CEMETERY

Groenenberg German Cem. Mem. 5.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Elizabeth Giles, of Cornworthy, Totnes, Devon.
  • Personal Inscription KILLED IN ACTION AND BURIED BY THE ENEMY IN GROENENBERG GERMAN CEMETERY BUT WHOSE GRAVE IS NOW LOST THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT
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Buried or commemorated at

LARCH WOOD (RAILWAY CUTTING) CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 857
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