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Gunner WILLIAM SOWERBY

Service Number: 196
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Field Artillery

1st (Cumberland) Bty. 1st/4th (East Lancs) Howitzer Bde.

Date of Death

Died 27 July 1915

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PINK FARM CEMETERY, HELLES

Sp. Mem. 95.

Turkey (including Gallipoli)

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Sowerby, of 175, Tosson Terrace, Heaton, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Native of Carlisle.
  • Personal Inscription THY WILL BE DONE
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Buried or commemorated at

PINK FARM CEMETERY, HELLES
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
Number of casualties: 602
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