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Private WILLIAM FRANCIS STAPLES

Service Number: 6024123
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Essex Regiment

Date of Death

Died 13 November 1940

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MANSFIELD WOODHOUSE CEMETERY

Sec. B. Grave 2893.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edmund and Jessie Staples, of Mansfield Woodhouse.
  • Personal Inscription WE HAVE LOST HEAVEN HAS GAINED ONE OF THE BEST THIS WORLD CONTAINED
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Buried or commemorated at

MANSFIELD WOODHOUSE CEMETERY
Nottinghamshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 19
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