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Lance Corporal ROWLAND WILLIAM DOUBLE

Service Number: 5951893
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Devonshire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 06 June 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

X. D. 2.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles and Ada Double; husband of Margaret Eleanor Double, of Morcott, Rutland.
  • Personal Inscription "I SAW THE POWERS OF DARKNESS PUT TO FLIGHT; I SAW THE MORNING BREAK" FOND MEMORIES
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Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 4654
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