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Private ALBERT EDWARD BURGESS

Service Number: 6171
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 19 October 1915

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

POPERINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

I. C. 21.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Samuel and Elizabeth Ann Burgess, of 136, Nelson St., Hyde, nr. Manchester.
  • Personal Inscription HE PLAYED THE MAN
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Buried or commemorated at

POPERINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 953
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