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Sapper BASIL CONWAY WITNEY

Service Number: 5393643
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

617 Assault Sqn.

Date of Death

Died 23 March 1945

Age 38 years old

Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

45. F. 8.

Germany

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Mary Annie Witney; husband of Constance Ivy Witney, of Ilford, Essex.
  • Personal Inscription "ABIDE WITH ME"
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Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 7671
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