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Private Daniel Astley

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Military service

Service number: 657016
Age: 24
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division: 47th Bn.
Birth: January 11, 1894 Aston, United Kingdom
Enlistment: December 16, 1915 Ontario
Death: August 14, 1918

Burial/memorial information

VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY
Grave reference: V. AA. 7.
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Son of William Thomas and Selina Astley.

Brother of Private Albert Ernest Astley, who died while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment).

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 361 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France

Villers-Bretonneux is a village 16 kilometres east of Amiens on the straight main road to St Quentin. The Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery is about 2 kilometres north of the village on the east side of the road to Fouilloy.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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