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Private WILLIAM BIRCHALL

Service Number: 1493936
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Date of Death

Died 13 August 1942

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY

23. A. 18.

Iraq

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Paterson Birchall and Mary Elizabeth Birchall, of Higher Irlam, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription TO A BEAUTIFUL LIFE CAME A SUDDEN END; HE DIED AS HE LIVED, EVERYONE'S FRIEND
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Buried or commemorated at

BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY
Iraq
Number of casualties: 7420
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