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Lance Corporal WILLIAM HENRY BURTON

Service Number: 318491
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

Date of Death

Died 24 August 1943

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BEIRUT WAR CEMETERY

3. A. 1.

Lebanese Republic

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment and Long Range Desert Group
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Samuel Henry and Beatrice Burton, of Doncaster, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription HIS MEMORY TO ME IS A TREASURE HIS LOSS A LIFE-LONG REGRET

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Buried or commemorated at

BEIRUT WAR CEMETERY
Lebanese Republic
Number of casualties: 1214
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