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Serjeant WILLIAM JOHN SHANNON

Service Number: 7042270
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Durham Light Infantry

Date of Death

Died 17 November 1943

Age 57 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WOLVERCOTE CEMETERY

Sec. G.3. Grave 30.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Daisy Alice Augusta Shannon, of Oxford.
  • Personal Inscription AND ALSO HIS WIFE DAISY SHANNON DIED 10TH MAY 1965
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Buried or commemorated at

WOLVERCOTE CEMETERY
Oxfordshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 45
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