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Corporal HAROLD OLIVER WILSON

Service Number: 7934291
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

"A" Sqn. 2nd The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry

Date of Death

Died 21 August 1944

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. DESIR WAR CEMETERY

II. E. 11.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment formerly 24th Lancers Royal Armoured Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Cecil Thomas Wilson and Fanny Beale Wilson, of Hayes, Bromley, Kent.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE THE GREATEST GIFT, THE GIFT OF HIS UNFINISHED LIFE. GOD BLESS, ALWAYS
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Buried or commemorated at

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