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Leading Seaman ROBERT WILLIAM STRAUGHAN

Service Number: Tyneside Z/348
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

63rd Machine Gun Bn. R.N. Div.

Date of Death

Died 01 September 1918

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY

V. F. 1.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Adam and Mary J. Straughan, of Eastern Way, Darras Hall, Ponteland, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Native of Dinnington Colliery, Northumberland.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS
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Buried or commemorated at

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