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Trooper WILLIAM SHELTON

Service Number: 317243
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

9th Queen's Royal Lancers

Date of Death

Died 25 October 1942

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY

X. D. 17.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George and Phoebe Ann Shelton; husband of Rose Ellen Shelton, of Meanwood, Leeds, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE
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