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Private WILLIAM WESLEY PORTER

Service Number: 4469601
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Seaforth Highlanders

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 20 December 1942

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HELIOPOLIS WAR CEMETERY

3. H. 17.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Georgina Porter; husband of Winifred Porter, of Shilbottle Grange, Northumberland.
  • Personal Inscription THE LORD GAVE, AND THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY
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Buried or commemorated at

HELIOPOLIS WAR CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 1830
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