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Corporal ALFRED CAREY

Service Number: 266463
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)

5th

Date of Death

Died 06 November 1918

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FONTAINE-AU-BOIS COMMUNAL CEMETERY

E. 9.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment late 2nd/6th Bn.
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Medal
  • Additional Info Son of Alfred and Elizabeth Carey, of Cosy Nook Hotel, Bolton-by-Bowland. Born at Gisburn, Clitheroe.
  • Personal Inscription FOR GOD, HOME, PARENTS KING & HIS COUNTRY HE DIED
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Buried or commemorated at

FONTAINE-AU-BOIS COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Nord France
Number of casualties: 95
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