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Sapper WALTER SIDNEY COPPENHALL

Service Number: 2076388
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

248 Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 21 May 1940

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

STEENWERCK COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Grave 4.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Walter and Ada Coppenhall, of Bedford.
  • Personal Inscription THE EVENING STARS SHINE O'ER THE GRAVE OF ONE WE LOVED BUT COULD NOT SAVE
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Buried or commemorated at

STEENWERCK COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Nord France
Number of casualties: 24
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