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Private WILLIAM HOLDCROFT

Service Number: 3391403
Regiment & Unit/Ship

East Lancashire Regiment

Date of Death

Died 30 August 1941

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HINDLEY CEMETERY

Sec. C.5. Grave 20.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Mary Holdcroft, of Platt Bridge.
  • Personal Inscription THE END WAS SUDDEN YOU MADE US CRY BUT THE WORST OF ALL WE NEVER SAID "GOOD-BYE"
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Buried or commemorated at

HINDLEY CEMETERY
Lancashire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 31
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