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Serjeant WILLIAM BURGESS ADAMSON

Service Number: 3/11505
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)

9th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 15 August 1917

Age 38 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX

IV. A. 55.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Benjamin and Ann Adamson; husband of Lilian Adamson, of 12, Howard St., Scarborough.
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Buried or commemorated at

BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 2073
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