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Second Lieutenant VICTOR LOUIS SNELSON

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Welsh Regiment

Date of Death

Died 15 July 1917

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FINS NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, SOREL-LE-GRAND

I. C. 8.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 12th Bn. South Wales Borderers
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edward Rivington Snelson and Annie Snelson, of The Turret, Port Hill, Shrewsbury.
  • Personal Inscription THE PATH OF DUTY WAS THE WAY TO GLORY
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Buried or commemorated at

FINS NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, SOREL-LE-GRAND
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1550
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