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Lance Corporal WILLIAM JAMES MASSINGHAM

Service Number: 799
Regiment & Unit/Ship

East Surrey Regiment

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 31 March 1916

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VERMELLES BRITISH CEMETERY

II. J. 16.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edmund and Sarah Massingham, of Bull Bay, Amlwch, Anglesey.
  • Personal Inscription HE LIKE OTHER HEROES FOUGHT & FELL AND FOR HIS COUNTRY DIED
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Buried or commemorated at

VERMELLES BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 2145
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