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Serjeant WILLIAM AUSTIN

Service Number: 39060
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps

32nd Coy.

Date of Death

Died 30 September 1916

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY

V. B. 35.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Esther Austin, of Sheffield.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN HE GAVE HIS LIFE THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1763
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