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Corporal WILLIAM SPERRY

Service Number: 4863964
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Leicestershire Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 23 August 1944

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. DESIR WAR CEMETERY

V. D. 7.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William John Sperry and of Annie Sperry (nee Baxter); husband of Edith Anne Sperry (nee Bettoney), of Oadby, Leicestershire.
  • Personal Inscription THE DAY THOU GAVEST, LORD, IS ENDED, THE DARKNESS FALLS AT THY BEHEST
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Buried or commemorated at

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