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  • Widcombe
  • Bath, England
  • Eldest son of William John and Amy Lucretia Wiltshire, of 47, Lower Bristol Rd., Bath; his father was a Bugle-Major and served in India; two brothers, Harold and Herbert, also buglers, served with the 2nd Bn Somerset Light Infantry in India; another brother served at the Western front, also SLI;

Military service

  • Bath
  • 9249
  • Corporal
  • 1st Bn. Somerset Light Infantry
  • to France on 21 August 1914

Death

  • Died from drift gas poisoning, in n°3 Can CCS
  • 23
  • VIII - D - 19

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