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Lance Corporal WILLIAM GILES

Service Number: 14199
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Coldstream Guards

4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 08 January 1916

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MERVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

VI. E. 6.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Elizabeth Giles, of Perry Fields, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

MERVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Nord France
Number of casualties: 1290
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