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Private WILLIAM GEOFFREY ALLEN

Service Number: 42254
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Yorkshire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 02 April 1917

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HENIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

II. E. 7.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Alexander Allen and Mary Allen, of New Fishbourne, Chichester, Sussex.
  • Personal Inscription NOT LEFT TO LIE LIKE FALLEN TREE NOT DEAD BUT LIVING UNTO THEE
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Buried or commemorated at

HENIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 193
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