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Corporal WILLIAM THOMAS EDWARD BURGESS

Service Number: 6087770
Regiment & Unit/Ship

The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 January 1941

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KNIGHTSBRIDGE WAR CEMETERY, ACROMA

2. D. 2.

Libya

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Lydia Burgess; husband of Elsie Florence May Burgess, of Battle, Sussex.
  • Personal Inscription AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING I WILL REMEMBER HIM. PADDY
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Buried or commemorated at

KNIGHTSBRIDGE WAR CEMETERY, ACROMA
Libya
Number of casualties: 3670
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