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Corporal WILLIAM KNOX ROPER

Service Number: 14001
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Yorkshire Regiment

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 05 July 1916

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

II. A. 58A.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the late Frederick Arthur Knox Roper and Maggie Knox Roper; husband of C. K. Roper, of 24, Pump Row, Waterloo, Usworth Colliery, Co. Durham.
  • Personal Inscription EVER REMEMBERED BY HIS LOVING WIFE, CATHRINE R.I.P.
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Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 11554
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