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Private WALTER GEORGE KNAPTON

Service Number: 25484
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Somerset Light Infantry

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 27 April 1918

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAGNEUX BRITISH CEMETERY, GEZAINCOURT

I. A. 2.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Catherine and the late Walter Hugh Knapton, of 56, Richmond MacE, Beacon Hill, Bath.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
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Buried or commemorated at

BAGNEUX BRITISH CEMETERY, GEZAINCOURT
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1374
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