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Private ROBERT WATTON WHITFIELD

Service Number: 38293
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

12th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 23 March 1917

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VARENNES MILITARY CEMETERY

I. J. 53.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Shield Whitfield, of Prospect House, Frosterley, Co. Durham.
  • Personal Inscription HE DID HIS DUTY TO THE END AMEN LOVED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM
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Buried or commemorated at

VARENNES MILITARY CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1220
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