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Corporal WILLIAM HIGGINBOTTOM

Service Number: 44901
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

149th Coy.

Date of Death

Died 19 April 1917

Age 39 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY

IV. C. 28.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Theresa Higginbottom, of New Mills; husband of Rachel Ann Higginbottom, of 95, Buxton Rd., Newtown, New Mills, Stockport, Cheshire.
  • Personal Inscription TOO DEARLY LOVED TO EVER BE FORGOTTEN
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Buried or commemorated at

WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 1939
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