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Sapper JOHN PRESTON WILSON

Service Number: 175577
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

258th Tunnelling Coy.

Date of Death

Died 15 October 1916

Buried or commemorated at

PHILOSOPHE BRITISH CEMETERY, MAZINGARBE

I. J. 11.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Margaret Wilson, of 44, Millen St., Gateshead.
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Buried or commemorated at

PHILOSOPHE BRITISH CEMETERY, MAZINGARBE
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 2001
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