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Second Lieutenant Charles Russell Chaffey

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Military service

Age: 28
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Manchester Regiment
Division: 23rd Battalion
Birth: October 31, 1888 Adelaide, Australia
Enlistment: September 18, 1914
Death: March 10, 1917 France

Burial/memorial information

FOUQUESCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Grave reference: Fonchette Chyd. Mem. 5.
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Son of Mrs. M. E. Chaffey, of Vancouver, British Columbia. Previously served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 576 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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FOUQUESCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY Somme, France

Fouquescourt is a village in the Department of the Somme, 35.5 kilometres east of Amiens and 8 kilometres due north of Roye. The Fouquescourt British Cemetery is a little north of the village on the east side of the road to Maucourt.

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