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Driver W KNOWLES

Service Number: 24327
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Field Artillery

23rd Bde. H.Q.

Date of Death

Died 24 February 1917

Age 39 years old

Buried or commemorated at

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I. R. 31.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the late James Knowles; husband of Lily Knowles, of Stoke Gabriel, Totnes, Devon. Born at Newton St. Cyres.
  • Personal Inscription ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE HE CALMLY TOOK HIS PLACE FOUGHT & DIED FOR BRITAIN IN HONOUR OF HIS RACE
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Somme France
Number of casualties: 888
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