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Company Serjeant Major WILLIAM BLUMSON

Service Number: 17/23
Regiment & Unit/Ship

West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 07 August 1917

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BRANDHOEK NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

IV. F. 1.

Belgium

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment trans. to (111602) 187th Coy.
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Blumson, of Newtown, Leeds.
  • Personal Inscription ETERNAL REST
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Buried or commemorated at

BRANDHOEK NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 559
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