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Corporal WILLIAM HERBERT BUTCHER

Service Number: 405480
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

1st King's Dragoon Guards

Date of Death

Died 28 May 1944

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BARI WAR CEMETERY

VII. A. 7.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Herbert and Winifred Butcher, of Basingstoke, Hampshire; husband of Eva Emily May Butcher, of Basingstoke.
  • Personal Inscription SLEEP ON, BELOVED, WE WILL MEET AGAIN IN THE GARDEN OF PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

BARI WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 2251
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