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Sapper ERNEST EDMUND NAPPER

Service Number: 167330
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

5th Army Wireless Coy.

Date of Death

Died 28 January 1917

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COURCELETTE BRITISH CEMETERY

I. C. 1.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest Edmund Napper; husband of Mary Constance Napper, of York Cottage, Upper Hardres, Canterbury. Born at Oxford.
  • Personal Inscription O COMPASSIONATE HEART OF JESUS GRANT UNTO HIM ETERNAL REST
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Buried or commemorated at

COURCELETTE BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1968
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