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Serjeant GEORGE WILSON

Service Number: 668
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Irish Rifles

16th (Pioneer) Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 June 1917

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WYTSCHAETE MILITARY CEMETERY

I. F. 6.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Margaret Wilson; husband of Ellen Wilson, of 60, Hill St., Lurgan, Co. Armagh.
  • Personal Inscription WEEPING MAY ENDURE FOR A NIGHT BUT JOY COMETH IN THE MORNING
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Buried or commemorated at

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