12785 Rfm Samuel W Powley, 8th Bn, KRRC

12785 Rifleman Samuel William Powley of the 8th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, died of wounds on the 1st September 1916. He was born and lived in Sevenoaks in Kent, and he enlisted at Tonbridge. At the time of his death he was 19 years old, the son of Mrs S A Powley of 21 Bushes Road, St John's Hill, Sevenoaks. He is buried in Heilly Station Cemetery at Mericourt L'Abbe.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

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Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission