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Private WILLIAM CRESSWELL

Service Number: 5189960
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gloucestershire Regiment

8th (H.D.) Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 July 1940

Age 45 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OLDBURY CEMETERY, WARLEY

Sec. F. Cons. Grave 1454.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Enoch and Sarah Ann Cresswell, of Oldbury; husband of Sarah Cresswell, of Oldbury.
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Buried or commemorated at

OLDBURY CEMETERY, WARLEY
Worcestershire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 37
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