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Private GEORGE ERNEST ROBERTS

Service Number: 240812
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

1st/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 19 July 1917

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COXYDE MILITARY CEMETERY

I. F. 32.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Owen and Fanny Roberts, of Crescent House, South Elmsall, Yorks.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR
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Buried or commemorated at

COXYDE MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1673
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