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Lance Corporal CECIL SUMNER

Service Number: 201273
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lincolnshire Regiment

1st/4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 22 October 1917

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY

VI. G. 73.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles and Emma Sumner, of 42, North St., Digby, Lincoln. His brother Frank Potterton Sumner also fell.
  • Personal Inscription EVEN SO FATHER FOR SO IT SEEMED GOOD IN THY SIGHT
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Buried or commemorated at

BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 3233
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