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Lance Corporal WILLIAM SMILEY

Service Number: 6979715
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 23 May 1940

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OOSTTAVERNE WOOD CEMETERY

II. F. 7.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Catherine M. Smiley, of Stranocum, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland.
  • Personal Inscription WE CANNOT, LORD, THY PURPOSE SEE BUT ALL IS WELL THAT IS DONE BY THEE
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Buried or commemorated at

OOSTTAVERNE WOOD CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1238
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