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Lance Corporal ERNEST WILLIAM ARTHUR BURGESS

Service Number: 5570664
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Wiltshire Regiment

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 07 August 1944

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

III. D. 7.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest and Elsie Pretoria Burgess; husband of Gladys Joan Burgess, of Calne, Wiltshire.
  • Personal Inscription GOODBYE, BELOVED, UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 4654
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