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Private WILLIAM HOUGHTON

Service Number: 5554
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lancashire Fusiliers

1st/7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 02 April 1918

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BIENVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY

XII. C. 7.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Sarah Houghton, of 9, Meadow St., Adlington, Lancs.
  • Personal Inscription ON HIS SOUL SWEET JESUS HAVE MERCY
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Buried or commemorated at

BIENVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 1624
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