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Driver RICHARD HAYWARD WADDINGTON

Service Number: 2070432
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

288 Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 07 September 1944

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY

Coll. grave 3. D. 2-20.

Thailand

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Ella Mary Waddington, of Bedford.
  • Personal Inscription THINK NOT OF WHAT HE WAS, ONLY OF WHAT HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN, FOR HE DIED YOUNG

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Buried or commemorated at

KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY
Thailand
Number of casualties: 6982
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