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Lance Corporal WILLIAM GEORGE SPEER

Service Number: 14639321
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Dorsetshire Regiment

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 10 October 1944

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY

11. C. 6.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George and Edith Speer, of Welling Kent.
  • Personal Inscription HE FELL ERE REACHING MAN'S ESTATE; YET PLAYED TILL DEATH A MANLY PART
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Buried or commemorated at

JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY
Gelderland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1646
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