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Lance Corporal WILLIAM ALFRED BENTLEY

Service Number: 5183786
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gloucestershire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 19 May 1940

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GAURAIN-RAMECROIX WAR CEMETERY

I. A. 7.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Leo and Emma Bentley, of Pensnett, Staffordshire.
  • Personal Inscription THEIR BODIES ARE BURIED IN PEACE, BUT THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE
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Buried or commemorated at

GAURAIN-RAMECROIX WAR CEMETERY
Hainaut Belgium
Number of casualties: 70
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