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Gunner GEORGE HOWSAM

Service Number: 706325
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Field Artillery

55th Div. Ammunition Col.

Date of Death

Died 04 March 1917

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VLAMERTINGHE MILITARY CEMETERY

VI. A. 5.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alfred and Mary Howsam, of Crumpsall, Manchester.
  • Personal Inscription WORTHLY GIVEN FOR OUR COUNTRY
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Buried or commemorated at

VLAMERTINGHE MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1182
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