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Flight Sergeant WILLIAM SIMPSON McILRAITH

Service Number: 428982
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal New Zealand Air Force

514 (R.A.F.) Sqdn

Date of Death

Died 21 July 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

15. D. 6.

Germany

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of William McIlraith and of Georgina McIlraith (nee Wright), of Waimate, South Canterbury, New Zealand.
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Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 7671
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