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Personal data

• Name FLETCHER
• Initials D
• First name DAVID
• Place of birth Wainfleet
• Country Lincoln, England
• Last residence Boultham

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Lincoln
• Service number 16172
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 2nd Bn. Coldstream Guards
• Division - Brigade 1st (Guards) Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division Guards Division
• National force B.E.F.

Death

• Wounded Poperinge
• Type of wounds Bombardment on Poperinge. One of the projectiles hits the porch where the guards are standing. Nine of them died instantly (Poperinghe New Military Cemetery); the wounded were brought to Remi Siding; two men die in the hospital (also L/Cpl. G.Place)
• Date of death 11 May 1916
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery VI - C - 44A

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