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Sapper JOHN WILMOTT BRIGGS

Service Number: 102215
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

179th Tunnelling Coy.

Date of Death

Died 07 August 1917

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BRANDHOEK NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

VI. A. 4.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Olive Briggs, of 6, Hulme St., Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent.
  • Personal Inscription AT REST
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Buried or commemorated at

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