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Serjeant WILLIAM AIKEN

Service Number: 2881904
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Date of Death

Died 19 July 1942

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MAYNAMATI WAR CEMETERY

10. C. 5.

Bangladesh

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 17th Indian Div. Workshop Sec., Indian Army Ordnance Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Ruth Aiken, of Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire.
  • Personal Inscription UNTIL THE DAY DAWN. FOR EVER IN OUR THOUGHTS - MUM, DAD AND ANDY
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Buried or commemorated at

MAYNAMATI WAR CEMETERY
Bangladesh
Number of casualties: 737
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