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Lance Corporal WILLIAM HENRY BURTON

Service Number: 318491
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

Date of Death

Died 24 August 1943

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BEIRUT WAR CEMETERY

3. A. 1.

Lebanese Republic

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment and Long Range Desert Group
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Samuel Henry and Beatrice Burton, of Doncaster, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription HIS MEMORY TO ME IS A TREASURE HIS LOSS A LIFE-LONG REGRET
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