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Trooper ERNEST LEO NEEDS

Service Number: 3698
Regiment & Unit/Ship

1st Life Guards

Date of Death

Died 26 August 1918

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DUISANS BRITISH CEMETERY, ETRUN

V. H. 24.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment transf. to Guards Machine Gun Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles and Kate Needs, of 16, Albany Rd., Freemantle, Southampton. Born in Jamaica, British West Indies.
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Buried or commemorated at

DUISANS BRITISH CEMETERY, ETRUN
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 3295
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