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Private Alfred William Riches

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Military service

Service number: 270238
Age: 39
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division: 50th Bn.
Birth: June 14, 1878
Death: August 20, 1918

Burial/memorial information

FOUQUESCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Grave reference: II. F. 7.
Additional information
Son of the late Alfred and Hannah Riches, of King's Lynn, Norfolk, England; husband of Kate L. Riches, of 11, Mintern Avenue, Brantford, Ontario, Canada.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 491 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.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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