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Private WILLIAM EDMUND ASTELL

Service Number: 51837
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Fusiliers

11th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 17 February 1917

Age 37 years old

Buried or commemorated at

REGINA TRENCH CEMETERY, GRANDCOURT

V. D. 16.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Emma J. Astell, of 47, Tillottson Rd., Lower Edmonton, London.
  • Personal Inscription SLEEP ON DEAR ONE TILL WE MEET AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

REGINA TRENCH CEMETERY, GRANDCOURT
Somme France
Number of casualties: 2280
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