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Lance Corporal ROBERT WILLIAM NELSON

Service Number: 22/539
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Northumberland Fusiliers

22nd (Tyneside Scottish) Bn.

Date of Death

Died 22 June 1916

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ALBERT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

I. G. 21.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Frances Alice Nelson, of 108, Spencer St., Heaton, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
  • Personal Inscription TOO FAR AWAY FOR WORDS OF SPEECH BUT NOT TOO FAR FOR MY THOUGHTS TO REACH
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