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Private WILLIE BECKETT

Service Number: 3450
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)

1st/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 17 December 1915

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY

I. K. 31A.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Walter and Sarah Ann Beckett, of Ravensthorpe, Dewsbury, Yorks.
  • Personal Inscription TOO DEARLY LOVED TO EVER BE FORGOTTEN BY HIS FAMILY
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Buried or commemorated at

WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 3036
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