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Lance Corporal CHARLES SIDNEY LAIRD

Service Number: 2698
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Infantry, A.I.F.

56th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 03 September 1918

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DAOURS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

VIII. B. 65.

France

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  • Country of Service Australian
  • Awards Military Medal
  • Additional Info Son of Charles Percy and Edith Adolina Laird, of "Simla," Blaxland Rd., Ryde, Sydney, New South Wales.
  • Personal Inscription IN MEMORY OF THE BELOVED SON OF MR. & MRS. LAIRD RYDE
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Buried or commemorated at

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Somme France
Number of casualties: 1231
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