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Sapper WILLIAM BLAIR

Service Number: 42834
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

81st Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 26 July 1916

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DANTZIG ALLEY BRITISH CEMETERY, MAMETZ

VIII. I. 10.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Blair, of Hartlepool, and the late Margaret Blair; husband of Mary E. Blair, of 194, Lansdown Rd., Birkenhead.
  • Personal Inscription BETTER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS HE LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
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Buried or commemorated at

DANTZIG ALLEY BRITISH CEMETERY, MAMETZ
Somme France
Number of casualties: 2053
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