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Guardsman WILLIAM BOWES

Service Number: 2623856
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Grenadier Guards

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 03 August 1944

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TILLY-SUR-SEULLES WAR CEMETERY

II. B. 6.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Gleniss and Dorothy Bowes, of Halton, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription "UNDERNEATH ARE THE EVERLASTING ARMS." HIS PARENTS, BROTHERS JOHN AND GLEN.

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Buried or commemorated at

TILLY-SUR-SEULLES WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 1221
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