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Sergeant WILLIAM SILL GRADWELL

Service Number: 978111
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

267 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 02 June 1942

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HELIOPOLIS WAR CEMETERY

1. B. 1.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Arthur Rowland and Annie Mercer Gradwell, of Clitheroe, Lancashire. His brother, Rowland Mercer (Jim) Gradwell, also died on service.
  • Personal Inscription IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY OF BILL. HIS BROTHER JIM LOST HIS LIFE IN BURMA,1944
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