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Serjeant WILLIAM HENRY BECKETT

Service Number: 2653922
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Coldstream Guards

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 01 June 1940

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WARHEM COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Row B. Grave 4.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert Henry and Edith Dinah Beckett; husband of Stella Beckett, of Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire.
  • Personal Inscription ALWAYS IN OUR THOUGHTS. STELLA AND FAMILY
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Buried or commemorated at

WARHEM COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Nord France
Number of casualties: 87
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