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Wilfrid Charles Emerson

Corporal

Service No. 2189

Age 32

Died on 23 April 1916

Royal Gloucestershire Hussars

JERUSALEM MEMORIAL

Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)

Son of John and A. Emerson, of Fairwater Farm, Michaelston-y-Vedw, Cardiff.

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Thank you to all who lost their lives to save our countries. You will always be remembered.

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

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To a cavalry soldier of the great war. I do not know you but I would have liked to have known you. My paternal grandfather, John Elson Carp...

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

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