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Private DAVID HENRY BEARD

Service Number: 94337
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

30th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 14 August 1918

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GODEWAERSVELDE BRITISH CEMETERY

II. AA. 10.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William James and Mary Elizabeth Beard, of Radstock, Bath. Also served 10 years in India with the Somerset Light Inf.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE A GREATER SACRIFICE HATH NO MAN
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Buried or commemorated at

GODEWAERSVELDE BRITISH CEMETERY
Nord France
Number of casualties: 991
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