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• Name WILTSHIRE
• Initials WE
• First name WILLIAM ERNEST
• Place of birth Widcombe
• Country Bath, England
• Family 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

• Place & date of enlistment Bath
• Service number 9249
• Rank Corporal
• Regiment and unit 1st Bn. Somerset Light Infantry
• Division - Brigade 11th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 4th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career to France on 21 August 1914

Death

• Type of wounds Died from drift gas poisoning, in n°3 Can CCS
• Date of death 9 August 1916
• Died at the age of 23
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery VIII - D - 19

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