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Corporal WILLIAM GAWTHORNE KIDGELL

Service Number: 2556
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Machine Gun Corps

12th Coy.

Date of Death

Died 06 August 1916

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SERRE ROAD CEMETERY No.2

XXIII. A. 11.

France

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  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of James Gawthorne Kidgell and Martha Kidgell, of Macgowan Avenue, Glen Huntly, Victoria. Born at Gympie, Queensland.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY
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Buried or commemorated at

SERRE ROAD CEMETERY No.2
Somme France
Number of casualties: 7138
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