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Private WILLIAM JAMES ABBOTT

Service Number: 14570505
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gloucestershire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 25 August 1944

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HERMANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

2. L. 1.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Edward and Edith Elsie Abbott, of Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

HERMANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 1005
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