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Serjeant WILLIAM JOHN NORGROVE

Service Number: 2072684
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

282 Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 06 August 1944

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BROUAY WAR CEMETERY

I. E. 3.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas Charles and Gertrude Norgrove; husband of Edna May Norgrove, of Penrhiewtyn, Neath, Glamorgan.
  • Personal Inscription 'TIS ONLY THOSE WHO HAVE LOST CAN TELL THE PAIN OF PARTING WITHOUT FAREWELL
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Buried or commemorated at

BROUAY WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 377
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