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Private WALTER JOHN DRINKWATER

Service Number: 5102937
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Worcestershire Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 27 August 1944

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VERNON (VERNONNET) COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Grave 4.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry and Kate Drinkwater; husband of Florence Elizabeth Drinkwater, of Small Heath, Birmingham.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS UNFINISHED LIFE THAT WE MIGHT LIVE. DUTY NOBLY DONE
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Buried or commemorated at

VERNON (VERNONNET) COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Eure France
Number of casualties: 18
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