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Corporal WILLIAM JAMES McCARTNEY

Service Number: 6975296
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Irish Fusiliers

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 09 February 1943

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MASSICAULT WAR CEMETERY

VI. B. 8.

Tunisia

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Matilda McCartney, of Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland.
  • Personal Inscription LOVE'S LAST GIFT, REMEMBRANCE. TO A GALLANT HUSBAND AND A DEVOTED FATHER
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Buried or commemorated at

MASSICAULT WAR CEMETERY
Tunisia
Number of casualties: 1579
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