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Guardsman WILLIAM WELSBY

Service Number: 2663371
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Coldstream Guards

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 01 August 1944

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. CHARLES DE PERCY WAR CEMETERY

V. G. 7.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Catherine Welsby, of Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.
  • Personal Inscription MEMORIES OF BILL, ONE OF THE BEST. WE SHALL NEVER FORGET. BROTHERS AND SISTERS
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Buried or commemorated at

ST. CHARLES DE PERCY WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 809
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