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Sapper WILLIAM MARSHALL McCRAE

Service Number: 10588129
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

940 (I.W.T.) Operating Coy.

Date of Death

Died 26 December 1945

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COLOGNE SOUTHERN CEMETERY

Plot 3. Row AA. Grave 14.

Germany

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Mathew and Annie McCrae; husband of Ina Ethel Patience McCrae.
  • Personal Inscription WHAT WE KEEP IN MEMORY IS OURS UNCHANGED FOR EVER, DARLING
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Buried or commemorated at

COLOGNE SOUTHERN CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 3324
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