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Private WILLIAM DAVID JONES

Service Number: 3774128
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)

2nd Bn. The Glasgow Highlanders

Date of Death

Died 16 September 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BIRKENHEAD (FLAYBRICK HILL) CEMETERY

Sec. 3. R.C. Grave 748A.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Catherine Jones, of Birkenhead.
  • Personal Inscription GOD SAW THE ROAD WAS ROUGH THE HILL TOO STEEP TO CLIMB HE GENTLY CLOSED HIS EYELIDS AND WHISPERED: PEACE BE THINE
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Buried or commemorated at

BIRKENHEAD (FLAYBRICK HILL) CEMETERY
Cheshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 222
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