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Individual Record
Inscription
Also L/c Cpl Walter James Furzer
Royal Glos Hussars
Son of above
Wounded at the Battle of Rafah
9th Jan 1917 Died 21st Jan 1917
Aged 24
Buried at Kantara, Egypt
Greater love hath no man than this
That a man lay down his life for his friends
Place of Inscription
Christchurch Cemetery Newport
Monmouthshire
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Walter James
Furzer
1892
Peterston Super Ely, Glamorgan
21st January 1917
Died from wounds at Kantara, Egypt received at Rafah on the 9th January 1917
24
Kantara War Cemetery, Egypt
First World War
Lance Corporal
1st/1st Battalion Royal Gloucestershire Hussars
D Squadron
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