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Private WILLIAM CHARLES WEST

Service Number: 5346370
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 10 May 1944

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BEACH HEAD WAR CEMETERY, ANZIO

XIV. E. 8.

Italy

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Violet Mary West, of Stanford Dingley, Berkshire.
  • Personal Inscription HEAVEN'S MORNING BREAKS AND EARTH'S VAIN SHADOWS FLEE
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Buried or commemorated at

BEACH HEAD WAR CEMETERY, ANZIO
Italy
Number of casualties: 2317
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