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Flight Sergeant WILLIAM DOUGLAS STOPFORD

Service Number: 969477
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

540 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 08 August 1944

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY

Joint grave 5. A. 12-13.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Sidney and Eunice Stopford; husband of Bessie Stopford, of Handforth. Cheshire.
  • Personal Inscription GENTLE IN MANNER, FIRM IN DEED. BESSY. RESTING, TILL WE MEET AGAIN. MAM AND DAD
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Buried or commemorated at

DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY
Bayern Germany
Number of casualties: 2970
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