Rank: 
Private
Service number: 
1482
Unit: 
5th Trench Mortar Battery
Location: 
St Jean-les-Ypres, France
Date of Death: 
31 July 1917
Enquirer: 
Lucy Opie
Eyewitness Reports: 
Oswald Roy Hillyer
Michael Harte
Edward William Wearne
Cleveland Hawthorn Greer
Arthur Courtney
Packet number: 
2226
Date range: 
1917-1918
SLSA record number: 
SRG 76/1/2226
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Submitted by Lisa Jade Bleijir (not verified) on Wed, 06/23/2021 - 16:07

Uncle of my mother's, June Gwennyth OPIE. After whom I was considered to be named.

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