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Private EDWARD ALGERNON BUTTON

Service Number: 4362
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South African Infantry

1st Regt.

Date of Death

Died 10 September 1916

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VILLERS STATION CEMETERY, VILLERS-AU-BOIS

III. A. 2.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service South African
  • Additional Info Son of Alice Hay (formerly Button), of 18, Earl St., Woodstock, Cape Town.
  • Personal Inscription HIS WILL BE DONE
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Buried or commemorated at

VILLERS STATION CEMETERY, VILLERS-AU-BOIS
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 1240
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