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Private HERBERT SYDNEY (BERT) MESSENGER

Service Number: 104681
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps

25th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 29 July 1918

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAGNEUX BRITISH CEMETERY, GEZAINCOURT

III. F. 25.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Sydney and Sophie Messenger, of Croydon, Surrey; husband of Harriet Florence Messenger, of 160, Strathyre Avenue, Norbury, London.
  • Personal Inscription IN DEATH NOT DIVIDED LOVING WIFE (HADDIE)
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Buried or commemorated at

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