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Sapper WILLIAM STANLEY

Service Number: 519134
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

68th Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 26 September 1917

Age 39 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GWALIA CEMETERY

II. C. 17.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Richard and Matilda Stanley, of Portsmouth; husband of Mrs. A. M. Stanley, of 117, Dickens Rd., Portsmouth.
  • Personal Inscription SIMPLY TO THY CROSS I CLING
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Buried or commemorated at

GWALIA CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 470
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