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Lieutenant Colonel GILBERT McCARTNEY WILKINS

Service Number: 618
Regiment & Unit/Ship

North Staffordshire Regiment

Cdg. 6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 17 August 1944

Age 43 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

XXII. F. 1.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Alfred Dalton Wilkins and Arabella Eleanor Nairn Wilkins; husband of Thyrza Doreen Wilkins, of Christchurch, Hampshire.
  • Personal Inscription GOLDEN OUR DAYS THOUGH FEW: THORN-CROWNED WITH MEMORY I BIDE TILL DEATH, THE DAWN AND YOU
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Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 4654
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