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Lance Corporal WILLIAM LEONARD BURGESS

Service Number: 9258
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Cheshire Regiment

"D" Coy. 10th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 11 November 1917

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GORRE BRITISH AND INDIAN CEMETERY

V. A. 6.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Mary Burgess, of 15, Woodfield Rd., Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.
  • Personal Inscription THY WILL BE DONE
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Buried or commemorated at

GORRE BRITISH AND INDIAN CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 942
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