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Lieutenant WILLIAM RICHARD AYRES

Service Number: 260138
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Date of Death

Died 27 September 1943

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HELIOPOLIS WAR CEMETERY

5. M. 3.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Evalyn Ayres; husband of Phyllis Ayres, of Parkstone, Dorsetshire.
  • Personal Inscription GOD BE WITH YOU TILL WE MEET AGAIN. R.I.P.
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Buried or commemorated at

HELIOPOLIS WAR CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 1830
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