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Lance Corporal WILLIAM EDWARD BAXTER

Service Number: 5888007
Regiment & Unit/Ship

The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 26 December 1943

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BARI WAR CEMETERY

XIV. E. 4.

Italy

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 2nd Ind. Parachute Bde. HQ.
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Bessie Baxter, of Leicester.
  • Personal Inscription PROUD AND LOVING MEMORIES OF OUR ONLY SON. SADLY MISSED. MAM AND DAD
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Buried or commemorated at

BARI WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 2251
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