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Lieutenant WILLIAM JOHN MORLEY NEEDES

Service Number: 242899
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

Date of Death

Died 10 March 1943

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BENGHAZI WAR CEMETERY

3. C. 33.

Libya

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 4 Field Coy. King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edgar Charles and Blodwen Ceridwen Needes, of Llandaff, Glamorgan.
  • Personal Inscription FATHER, IN THY GRACIOUS KEEPING LEAVE WE NOW OUR DARLING SLEEPING
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Buried or commemorated at

BENGHAZI WAR CEMETERY
Libya
Number of casualties: 1240
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