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Sapper WILLIAM BROUGHTON

Service Number: 2148167
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

7 Boring Sec.

Date of Death

Died 18 July 1942

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MOSUL WAR CEMETERY

1. C. 8.

Iraq

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Percy Albert and Mary Broughton; husband of Frances Amelia Broughton, of Peckham, London.
  • Personal Inscription HE THAT HAS PASSED FROM MY SIGHT, IS JUST ASLEEP, TO WAKE AGAIN TOGETHER
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Buried or commemorated at

MOSUL WAR CEMETERY
Iraq
Number of casualties: 351
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