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Private WILLIAM CORNELIUS SANSOM

Service Number: 7656065
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Date of Death

Died 16 August 1943

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TEL EL KEBIR WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

4. J. 5.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Percy Howard Sansom and Catherine Sansom, of Tottenham, Middlesex.
  • Personal Inscription IN MEMORY OF OUR DEARLY BELOVED SON, ENSHRINED FOR EVER IN OUR HEARTS
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Buried or commemorated at

TEL EL KEBIR WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 680
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