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Corporal WILLIAM PORTER

Service Number: 1896051
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

3 Field Sqn.

Date of Death

Died 20 February 1943

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SFAX WAR CEMETERY

XIII. E. 18.

Tunisia

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Foster-son of Mrs. M. Thomson, of Peebles.
  • Personal Inscription THERE IS NO GLORY THAT SHALL WANE FOR HIM NOR LOVE TURN COLD
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Buried or commemorated at

SFAX WAR CEMETERY
Tunisia
Number of casualties: 1255
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