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Lance Corporal HARRY COLLINSON

Service Number: 62778
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Welsh Fusiliers

16th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 30 August 1918

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GUARDS' CEMETERY, LESBOEUFS

IX. T. 6.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles Walter and Elizabeth Collinson, of Gee Cross, Hyde, Cheshire; husband of Mary Hannah Collinson, of 29, Frenchwood Avenue, Preston.
  • Personal Inscription DO THY DUTY THAT IS BEST LEAVE UNTO THY GOD THE REST
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Buried or commemorated at

GUARDS' CEMETERY, LESBOEUFS
Somme France
Number of casualties: 3143
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