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Private CHARLES RICHARD ORCHARD

Service Number: 62801
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

143rd Coy.

Date of Death

Died 04 October 1917

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DOCHY FARM NEW BRITISH CEMETERY

VI. B. 29.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Emily L. Orchard, of 185, Sutton Buildings, Chelsea, London, and the late Charles R. Orchard.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS
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Buried or commemorated at

DOCHY FARM NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1439
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