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Walter France

Private

Service No. 65824

Age 20

Died on 8 October 1917

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

TYNE COT MEMORIAL

West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Son of Walter and Mary Eliza France, of 23, Spencer St., Wath Rd., Mexborough, Rotherham.

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James Beer

My poppy is for Pvt France. It is my honour and duty to remember him.

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We will remember them.

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Walter, O valiant heart, your glory came in the Salient. Your memory hallowed in the land you loved. Harry

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Walter, I do not know the precise circumstances of your death, but, as a former soldier in the 1st and the 7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment ...

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