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Sapper WILLIAM THOMAS BLIGHT THOMSON

Service Number: 17432
Regiment & Unit/Ship

New Zealand Engineers

7 Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 27 June 1942

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY

XXX. A. 23.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of James Thomson and of Caroline Thomson (nee Blight), of Ohai, Southland, New Zealand.
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Buried or commemorated at

EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 7368
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