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Private William Rackham

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Military service

Service number: 401591
Age: 19
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division: 1ST Bn.
Birth: September 30, 1896
Death: September 7, 1916

Burial/memorial information

SUNKEN ROAD CEMETERY, CONTALMAISON
Grave reference: I. D. 22.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 151 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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SUNKEN ROAD CEMETERY, CONTALMAISON Somme, France

Contalmaison is a village in the Department of the Somme, 6 kilometres east-north-east of Albert. The Sunken Road, from which the cemetery is named, is part of the Contalmaison-Pozieres road, and the cemetery lies a little east of the road.

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