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Sergeant WILLIAM JOHN PROFFITT

Service Number: 1029514
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

166 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 19 March 1944

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COXYDE MILITARY CEMETERY

V. F. 2.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Samuel and Mary Winifred Proffitt; husband of Mary Magdalen Proffitt, of Wordsley, Stourbridge, Worcestershire.
  • Personal Inscription "BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART: FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD" R.I.P.
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Buried or commemorated at

COXYDE MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1673
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