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Private WALTER WILLIAM SHEAD

Service Number: 5384859
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 September 1944

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OXFORD (ROSE HILL) CEMETERY

Sec. G.1. Grave 255.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Nellie Gertrude Shead, of Cowley, Oxford.
  • Personal Inscription IN GOD'S SAFE KEEPING "TILL WE MEET AGAIN"
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Buried or commemorated at

OXFORD (ROSE HILL) CEMETERY
Oxfordshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 88
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