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Lance Corporal W SAMSON

Service Number: 11340
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

1st Bn

Date of Death

Died 15 July 1916

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MORLANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY NO.1

B. 33.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of Albert and Ellen Samson, of 35, Mill Rd., Northumberland Heath, Erith, Kent.
  • Personal Inscription THY WILL BE DONE
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Buried or commemorated at

MORLANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY NO.1
Somme France
Number of casualties: 75
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