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Lieutenant Colonel WILLIAM DIGBY OSWALD

Regiment & Unit/Ship

5th Dragoon Guards (Princess Charlotte of Wales's)

Date of Death

Died 16 July 1916

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DIVE COPSE BRITISH CEMETERY, SAILLY-LE-SEC

II. B. 25.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment and 12th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Distinguished Service Order, Twice Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas Ridley Oswald and Wilhelmina Catherine Oswald; husband of Catherine Mary Oswald, of St. Winning, Weymouth, Dorset.
  • Personal Inscription OMNIA VINCIT AMOR LET LIGHT PERPETUAL SHINE R.I.P.
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