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Lance Corporal WILLIAM HOCKEY

Service Number: 7688656
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Corps of Military Police

18th Divisional Provost Coy.

Date of Death

Died 23 August 1943

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY

B4. E. 15.

Myanmar

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Wilfred and Mary Hockey; husband of Esther Lisle Hockey, of Denton, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription A BEAUTIFUL SOUL IN A GARDEN OF REST
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Buried or commemorated at

THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY
Myanmar
Number of casualties: 3770
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