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Gunner WILFRED CECIL BURTON

Service Number: 192109
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Garrison Artillery

208th Siege Bty.

Date of Death

Died 24 July 1917

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HEDGE ROW TRENCH CEMETERY

Sp. Mem. F. 5.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Berry Burton and Ellen Jane Burton, of Fountain Farm, Vale Rd., St. Sampson's, Guernsey.
  • Personal Inscription WE SHALL GO TO HIM BUT HE WILL NOT RETURN TO US
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Buried or commemorated at

HEDGE ROW TRENCH CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 98
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