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Private WILLIAM LEES

Service Number: H/100646
Regiment & Unit/Ship

4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards, R.C.A.C.

Date of Death

Died 15 December 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VILLANOVA CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

VI, C, 1.

Italy

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of William and Clara Lees, of Stalybridge, Cheshire.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR FREEDOM. IN GOD WE TRUST
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Buried or commemorated at

VILLANOVA CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 212
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