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Serjeant WILLIAM JAMES NAPPIN

Service Number: 14957947
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Corps of Military Police

Date of Death

Died 13 May 1946

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MADRAS WAR CEMETERY, CHENNAI

7. E. 5.

India

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Stanley and Mary Nappin, of Ennerdale, Cumberland.
  • Personal Inscription THE SUN WENT DOWN WHILE IT WAS YET DAY
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Buried or commemorated at

MADRAS WAR CEMETERY, CHENNAI
India
Number of casualties: 860
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