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Second Lieutenant RALPH SNOWDON

Regiment & Unit/Ship

East Yorkshire Regiment

4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 02 October 1917

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY

I. A. 39.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Charlotte Snowdon, of Hornsea, East Yorks. Branch manager of the Hull Savings Bank. Enlisted Sept., 1914, in the 10th Bn. Served in Egypt and France; was gassed at the Battle of the Somme, 1916. Gazetted to Commission, July, 1917.
  • Personal Inscription BE THOU FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH AND I WILL GIVE THEE A CROWN OF LIFE
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