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Gunner SAMUEL BACON

Service Number: 6980
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Garrison Artillery

152nd Heavy Bty.

Date of Death

Died 29 July 1916

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MESNIL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

III. D. 6.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Samuel and Harriet Bacon, of Mile End, London; husband of Alice Sophia Bacon, of 41, Colbourne Avenue, Brighton. Assistant Librarian, Stepney Borough Libraries, London.
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Buried or commemorated at

MESNIL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 333
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