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Major WILLIAM LESLIE DANKS

Service Number: 40257
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Pay Corps

Date of Death

Died 26 November 1940

Age 56 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FULFORD CEMETERY

Sec. 2. Row C. Grave 4.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Jane Danks; husband of Ethel Seymour Danks, of Wilton, Wiltshire.
  • Personal Inscription FAITHFUL TO HIS COUNTRY. THROUGH THIS HE GAVE HIS LIFE
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Buried or commemorated at

FULFORD CEMETERY
Yorkshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 323
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