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Corporal DESMOND JOHN WOOLFORD

Service Number: 5728951
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Dorsetshire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 08 May 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KOHIMA WAR CEMETERY

7. C. 7.

India

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Walter and Ellen Sarah J. Woolford; husband of Winifred Marion Woolford, of Carshalton, Surrey.
  • Personal Inscription WHOSEOEVER READS THIS NAME, SALUTES MEN WHO DIED THAT OTHERS MIGHT BE FREE
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Buried or commemorated at

KOHIMA WAR CEMETERY
India
Number of casualties: 1421
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