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Corporal ALLAN WILSON

Service Number: 5580
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps

69th Coy.

Date of Death

Died 04 January 1917

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VARENNES MILITARY CEMETERY

I. F. 31.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest William and Ann Wilson, of 147, Waid's House Rd., Nelson, Lancs.
  • Personal Inscription THOUGH FALLEN THOU THE CROWN HAST WON
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Buried or commemorated at

VARENNES MILITARY CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1220
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