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Private WILLIAM JOLLY

Service Number: 2875939
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gordon Highlanders

5/7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 19 August 1944

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. DESIR WAR CEMETERY

III. F. 10.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles Jolly and of Margaret Clark Jolly (nee Reid); husband of Williamina Jolly (nee Baird), of Braemar, Aberdeenshire.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

ST. DESIR WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 603
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