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Private R BIRNEY

Service Number: 24/732
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Northumberland Fusiliers

24th (Tyneside Irish) Bn.

Date of Death

Died 08 July 1916

Age 45 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GATESHEAD EAST CEMETERY

30. 223.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Mary J. Birney, of 67, Mansfield St., Gateshead.
  • Personal Inscription ON WHOSE SOUL SWEET JESUS HAVE MERCY
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Buried or commemorated at

GATESHEAD EAST CEMETERY
Durham United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 240
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