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Private WILLIAM JAMES JEFFRIES

Service Number: 16685
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gloucestershire Regiment

12th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 13 August 1916

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BOIS-GUILLAUME COMMUNAL CEMETERY

I. C. 7A.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Jemima Jeffries, of Wilton, Splots, Worle, Weston-super-Mare.
  • Personal Inscription HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
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Buried or commemorated at

BOIS-GUILLAUME COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Seine-Maritime France
Number of casualties: 320
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