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Lance Corporal OLIVER PRETTY

Service Number: 40881
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lincolnshire Regiment

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 20 April 1918

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VARENNES MILITARY CEMETERY

I. K. 25.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment formerly Leicestershire Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Clement and Jessie Pretty, of Barkby, nr. Leicester.
  • Personal Inscription I HAVE FOUGHT A GOOD FIGHT I HAVE FINISHED MY COURSE I HAVE KEPT THE FAITH
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Buried or commemorated at

VARENNES MILITARY CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1220
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