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Private WILLIAM JAMES OAKLEY

Service Number: 5630425
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Devonshire Regiment

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 06 June 1944

Age 39 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GLOUCESTER OLD CEMETERY

War Graves Plot B. Grave 9655.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Gladys Oakley, of Gloucester.
  • Personal Inscription GOD SAW HIS RUGGED PATHWAY WAS GETTING HARD TO CLIMB SO CLOSED HIS WEARY EYELIDS AND WHISPERED "PEACE BE THINE"
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Buried or commemorated at

GLOUCESTER OLD CEMETERY
Gloucestershire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 273
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