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2Nd Corporal WILLIAM WALKER

Service Number: 79574
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

179th Tunnelling Coy.

Date of Death

Died 21 November 1915

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

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I. A. 15.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Joan Hay Walker, of 8, Newton St., Edinburgh.
  • Personal Inscription FATHER IN THY GRACIOUS KEEPING WE LEAVE OUR DARLING DADDY SLEEPING
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Somme France
Number of casualties: 888
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