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Corporal GERALD WILSON

Service Number: 5384485
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gordon Highlanders

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 17 August 1944

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. DESIR WAR CEMETERY

III. E. 13.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James Edward Baylis Wilson and Norah Catherine Wilson, of Banbury, Oxfordshire.
  • Personal Inscription ETERNAL REST GIVE UNTO HIM, O LORD; AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON HIM. R.I.P.
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Buried or commemorated at

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