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Second Lieutenant WILLIAM FRANCIS WELLS-COLE

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lincolnshire Regiment

1st Bn. attd. 8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 31 July 1917

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

Panel 21.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Eldest son of William Francis Wells-Cole and Ellen Slorey, his wife, of Lincolnshire. Born at Sedgeford, King''s Lynn. Educated at The Dragon''s School, Oxford, Repton (The Priory), and passed into R.M.C., Sandhurst, 1915.
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