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Lance Corporal WILLIAM STANLEY GILES

Service Number: 14764346
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Scots Guards

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 11 March 1945

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

43. C. 16.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Agnes Giles, of Hayes, Middlesex.
  • Personal Inscription "HERE RESTS HIS HEAD UPON THE LAP OF EARTH A YOUTH TO FORTUNE AND TO FAME UNKNOWN"
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Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 7671
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