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Private WILLIAM NELSON

Service Number: 13007917
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Pioneer Corps

Aux. Mil.

Date of Death

Died 17 June 1940

Age 42 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RENNES EASTERN COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Sec. 18. Plot 1. Row A. Grave 61.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Elizabeth Nelson, of Cookstown, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
  • Personal Inscription LEST WE FORGET
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Buried or commemorated at

RENNES EASTERN COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Ille-et-Vilaine France
Number of casualties: 252
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