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Private ERNEST DRAKE

Service Number: 266309
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)

9th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 09 August 1918

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY, WIMILLE

II. A. 50.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Florence M. Kennedy Drake, of 4, Ebenezer Square, Ingrow, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription MAY HIS REWARD BE AS GREAT AS HIS SACRIFICE FROM WIFE AND CHILD
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Buried or commemorated at

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