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Private A BIRTLES

Service Number: 23977
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 07 September 1918

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY, WIMILLE

III. C. 37.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles and Emma Birtles, of Scholar Green, Stoke-on-Trent; husband of Mrs. Ethel Birtles, of Stoke-on-Trent.
  • Personal Inscription IT'S HARD TO PART WITH ONE WE LOVE BUT GOD KNOWS BEST
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Buried or commemorated at

TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY, WIMILLE
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 4749
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