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Lance Corporal WILLIAM ALBERT MERCER

Service Number: 2573080
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Corps of Signals

Date of Death

Died 21 May 1940

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HARSTAD CEMETERY

Allied Plot E. 8.

Norway

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Albert Edward and Emma Mercer, of Liverpool; husband of Violet Mercer.
  • Personal Inscription SLEEP ON, MY SON AND TAKE THY REST I LOVED YOU DEARLY BUT JESUS LOVED YOU BEST
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Buried or commemorated at

HARSTAD CEMETERY
Norway
Number of casualties: 34
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