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Gunner WILLIAM GEORGE BURTON

Service Number: 1549685
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

89 Bty., 35 Lt. A.A. Regt.

Date of Death

Died 03 February 1943

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY

Brit. Sec. M. D. 5.

Japan

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Thomas Burton and Ruby Burton; nephew of Mr. J. White, of Catford, London.
  • Personal Inscription "WITHIN THIS SOIL, FOREVER BRITISH, LIES MY BROTHER & IS THE RICHER FOR IT"
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