Person    | Male  Died 5/8/1917

William Daston

Countries: Belgium

War dead, WW1 i

Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW1.

William Daston

Private. Number G/25620 of the 12th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. Killed in action aged 24. Buried in plot I.F.6 of Voormezeele Enclosures Numbers 1 and 2, West Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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