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Private WILLIAM ERNEST (BILLY) SKILTON

Service Number: 72036
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

3rd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 28 March 1918

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BELLACOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, RIVIERE

I. N. 9.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Youngest son of Alfred and Margaret Skilton, of Ipswich.
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Buried or commemorated at

BELLACOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, RIVIERE
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 549
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