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Lance Corporal JOHN WILLIAM FINCHAM

Service Number: 20755
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Suffolk Regiment

11th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 01 July 1916

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY

Sp. Mem. 18.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Grimmer Fincham; husband of Alice Sarah Fincham, of Tydd St. Giles, Wisbech, Cambs.
  • Personal Inscription THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT
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Buried or commemorated at

OVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 3561
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