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Corporal G S OLDROYD

Service Number: C/12331
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Royal Rifle Corps

21st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 12 October 1916

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HEILLY STATION CEMETERY, MERICOURT-L'ABBE

IV. B. 79.

France

Images from Old Images Drive taken by DIS and saved on CD, November 2005: headstone of Flying Officer John Philip Halestrap - one of the three casualties cremated at Ipswich Crematorium whose ashes were buried in the "Urn Section" (Section TR) of the Garden of Remembrance and commemorated there by headstones.

Photographer: DIS

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
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Buried or commemorated at

HEILLY STATION CEMETERY, MERICOURT-L'ABBE
Somme France
Number of casualties: 2973
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