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Private JOHN WILLIAM ASHTON

Service Number: 22398
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Grenadier Guards

3rd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 17 January 1917

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SAILLY-SAILLISEL BRITISH CEMETERY

VI. I. 8.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 2nd Bde. Machine Gun Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Mary Ashton of 50 Millgate, Wigan.
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Buried or commemorated at

SAILLY-SAILLISEL BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 771
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