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Corporal WILLIAM BALMFORTH

Service Number: 4/1069
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)

1st/4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 15 May 1915

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MERVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

III. C. 4.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Harry and Ada Balmforth, of Church St., Cleckheaton, Yorks.
  • Personal Inscription PEACE PERFECT PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

MERVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Nord France
Number of casualties: 1290
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