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Personal data

• Name GRIMES
• Initials RW
• First name ROBERT WILLIAM
• Place of birth Wakefield
• Country West Yorkshire, England
• Last residence Burnley
• Family Husband of Amy Grimes, of 108, Every St., Burnley.
  Three children.
• Profession Employed by the Utility Motors

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Burnley
• Service number CMT/3442
• Rank Corporal
• Regiment and unit 4th Austr. Div. Supply Column Australian Army Service Corps
• Attached or transferred from Mechanical Transport Coy. - Royal Army Service Corps
• Other data related to military career to France on 14 August 1914

Death

• Wounded Behind the line, CCS, talking petrol and rations off a lorry, a shell bursted among them.
• Type of wounds Wounded in both legs and left arm.
• Date of death 21 October 1917
• Died at the age of 28
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXV - G - 12

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