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Private WILLIAM ROBERT McELNEY

Service Number: 4201241
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South Staffordshire Regiment

2/6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 08 July 1944

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CAMBES-EN-PLAINE WAR CEMETERY

Row D. 6.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Mary McElney; husband of Phoebe Eileen McElney, of Carshalton, Surrey.
  • Personal Inscription DEARLY REMEMBERED BY ALL WHO LOVED HIM. HIS CREED; SERVICE WITH A SMILE
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Buried or commemorated at

CAMBES-EN-PLAINE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 224
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