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Lance Corporal JOEL WHITWAM

Service Number: 4615776
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars

Date of Death

Died 19 October 1944

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MIERLO WAR CEMETERY

I. F. 13.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Dyson and Daisy Whitwam, of Linthwaite, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription SACRED THIS PRECIOUS GRAVE OF THE SON WE LOVED ASLEEP WITH COMRADES BRAVE "HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY"
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Buried or commemorated at

MIERLO WAR CEMETERY
Noord-Brabant Netherlands
Number of casualties: 666
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