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Guardsman WILLIAM DAVID HECTOR REES

Service Number: 2735646
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Welsh Guards

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 03 August 1944

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. CHARLES DE PERCY WAR CEMETERY

VIII. D. 4.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Hector and Edith Rees; husband of Marion Ada Rees, of Great Barr, Birmingham.
  • Personal Inscription HE LAUGHED AND SANG THROUGH YEARS OF WAR GOD GRANT HE MAY FOR EVERMORE
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Buried or commemorated at

ST. CHARLES DE PERCY WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 809
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