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Private WALTER LEAR

Service Number: 28952
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 19 March 1917

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LEBUCQUIERE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

II. G. 3.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Lewis Lear, of Exeter; husband of Ellen Louisa Lear, of 20, Garden Square, North St., Exeter.
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Buried or commemorated at

LEBUCQUIERE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 779
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