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Corporal WILLIAM VERNON SPARROW

Service Number: 2014935
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

994 Docks Operating Coy.

Date of Death

Died 19 July 1943

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SYRACUSE WAR CEMETERY, SICILY

I. F. 16.

Italy

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alfred and Lillie Sparrow; husband of Helen Ethel Sparrow, of Hammersmith, London.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED AS HE LIVED, LOVED BY ALL; HIS ONLY ENEMY WAS THE ENEMY OF HIS COUNTRY
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