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Private WILLIAM POTTER

Service Number: 5437489
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died Between 31 May 1940 and 01 June 1940

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DE PANNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Plot 3. Row A. Grave 7.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Foster-son of Harold Gordon Alexander and Mary Lydia Alexander, of Banbury, Oxfordshire.
  • Personal Inscription "ALLE MAY GOD AMENDE"
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Buried or commemorated at

DE PANNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 283
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