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Corporal WILLIAM CECIL B. WRITER

Service Number: 300253
Regiment & Unit/Ship

London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade)

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 01 July 1916

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GOMMECOURT BRITISH CEMETERY NO.2, HEBUTERNE

III. B. 21.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas Augustus Writer, of 69, Seymour Gardens, Ilford, Essex. His brother Frank Thomas also fell.
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Buried or commemorated at

GOMMECOURT BRITISH CEMETERY NO.2, HEBUTERNE
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 1356
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