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Richard Fountain

Private

Service No. 3101

Age 19

Died on 22 May 1916

Royal Warwickshire Regiment

GEZAINCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Somme, France

Son of Ernest Edward and Betsy Fountain, of 50, Francis Rd., Cotteridge, Birmingham.

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May you live in our hearts forever.

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Richard O valiant heart to whom your glory came. Your memory hallowed in the land you loved. Harry

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Wounded during a Stokes Mortar demonstration and treated for injuries in a Field Hospital and Gezaincourt Hospital where he died of his woun...

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Richard, 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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