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Lance Serjeant WILLIAM THOMAS SPARKS

Service Number: 1432405
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

68 Anti-Tank Regt.

Date of Death

Died 11 August 1944

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

XXIII. F. 23.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Thomas Sparks and Anne Sparks; husband of Beatrice Helen Sparks, of Halfway Houses, Isle of Sheppey, Kent.
  • Personal Inscription THIS SPOT ALTHOUGH IN A FOREIGN LAND WILL ALWAYS BE A BIT OF ENGLAND
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Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 4654
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