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Private W G BACON

Service Number: 114703
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

38th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 August 1918

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY

XIII. D. 1.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Eli John and Lydia Ellen Bacon, of 146, High St., Braintree, Essex.
  • Personal Inscription HE IS NOT DEAD BUT SLEEPING FOR THE LOVE OF HIM WE KEEP THY WILL BE DONE
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Buried or commemorated at

OVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 3561
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