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Lance Corporal GEORGE ERNEST BRIGGS

Service Number: 319
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Northumberland Fusiliers

18th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 08 September 1916

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CONTALMAISON CHATEAU CEMETERY

II. A. 6.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George and Lucy Briggs; husband of Dorothy Graham Briggs, of 90, Colston St., Benwell, Newcastle-on-Tyne,.
  • Personal Inscription AT REST
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Buried or commemorated at

CONTALMAISON CHATEAU CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 289
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