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Lieutenant WILLIAM RANKIN

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

Date of Death

Died 18 February 1918

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TINCOURT NEW BRITISH CEMETERY

V. B. 2.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. VIII Corps H.Q
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the late Douglas and Isabella Rankin, of Fleetwood; husband of Alice Maude Rankin, of 46, Cliftonville Gardens, Monkseaton, Northumberland.
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Buried or commemorated at

TINCOURT NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 2139
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