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Second Lieutenant RALPH HAMON WEELEY UPTON

Regiment & Unit/Ship

East Surrey Regiment

3rd Bn. attd. 8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 03 May 1917

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY

Special Memorial 22.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George Rupert Thomas Upton and Margaret Harriet Eleanor, his wife (nee Tomkin), of Northholme, Mitcham, Surrey. Scholar of Haileybury College and Selwyn College, Cambridge. Born at Mitcham.
  • Personal Inscription KILLED IN ACTION BEFORE CHERISY GRAVE UNKNOWN SURSUM CORDA
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Buried or commemorated at

WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 1938
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