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Private WILFRED DOUGLAS ELSON

Service Number: 5049311
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Somerset Light Infantry

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 01 October 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY

7. C. 9.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Phyllis Elson, of Winshill, Burton-on-Trent.
  • Personal Inscription HE ANSWERED THE CALL AND NOW RESTS WITH HONOUR
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Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY
Gelderland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1772
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