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Private WILLIAM FRANCIS THELAN

Service Number: 2735
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Infantry, A.I.F.

45th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 13 October 1917

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PASSCHENDAELE NEW BRITISH CEMETERY

XIV. E. 1.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Franz Oscar Joseph and Anne Thelan; husband of Mary Ellen Thelan, of Cobargo, New South Wales.
  • Personal Inscription IN THE BLOOM OF LIFE GOD CLAIMED HIM
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Buried or commemorated at

PASSCHENDAELE NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 2102
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