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Private DOUGLAS WILLIAM GILBERT

Service Number: S/265415
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Service Corps

Date of Death

Died 18 August 1943

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY

B1. A. 4.

Myanmar

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. H.Q. 18th Div.
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Thomas Gilbert and Winifred Ada Gilbert, of West Drayton, Middlesex.
  • Personal Inscription "ONE WHO...HELD WE FALL TO RISE, ARE BAFFLED TO FIGHT BETTER, SLEEP TO WAKE"
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Buried or commemorated at

THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY
Myanmar
Number of casualties: 3770
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