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Private ROBERT KNOWLES OXLEY

Service Number: 542
Regiment & Unit/Ship

East Yorkshire Regiment

10th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 12 April 1918

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WYTSCHAETE MILITARY CEMETERY

II. E. 14.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment transf. to (64987) 12th/13th Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Ada Mary Oxley, of Hull; husband of Dorothy Oxley, of 171, St. George's Rd., Hull.
  • Personal Inscription THE SACRIFICE SUPREME DEARLY REMEMBERED BY HIS LOVING WIFE
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Buried or commemorated at

WYTSCHAETE MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1016
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