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Serjeant CECIL DOUGLAS BESANT

Service Number: 421242
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Medical Corps

2nd/3rd North Midland Field Amb

Date of Death

Died 03 November 1918

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY, WIMILLE

IX. C. 13.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George Besant, of 90, North Rd., Wolverhampton.
  • Personal Inscription LOVED IN LIFE HONOURED IN DEATH
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Buried or commemorated at

TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY, WIMILLE
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 4749
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