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Sapper WILLIAM WITTEY

Service Number: 942
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

1st London Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 10 August 1915

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NEW IRISH FARM CEMETERY

XXVIII. C. 6.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Marshall Wittey and Louisa Wittey, of 278, Oxford St., Stepney, London.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN HE LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
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Buried or commemorated at

NEW IRISH FARM CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 4759
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