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Flight Sergeant WILLIAM DESMOND HARPER

Service Number: 1621704
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Date of Death

Died 17 August 1944

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NICOSIA WAR CEMETERY

2. C. 5.

Cyprus

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Thomas Harper and Amy Isabell Harper, of Bootle, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription "THE LORD GAVE, AND THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY; BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD"
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Buried or commemorated at

NICOSIA WAR CEMETERY
Cyprus
Number of casualties: 219
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