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Lance Bombardier WILLIAM HEWITSON APPLETON

Service Number: 557640
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

102 (The Northumberland Hussars) Anti-Tank Regt.

Date of Death

Died 13 March 1941

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PHALERON WAR CEMETERY

16. C. 1.

Greece

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Andrew Coldwell Appleton and Ethel Appleton, of Newbiggin-by-Sea, Northumberland.
  • Personal Inscription UNTIL THE DAY BREAK AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY
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Buried or commemorated at

PHALERON WAR CEMETERY
Greece
Number of casualties: 2056
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