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Corporal WILLIAM JOHN SHEPSTONE

Service Number: 6983107
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

14th/20th King's Hussars

Date of Death

Died 16 April 1945

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FAENZA WAR CEMETERY

VII. G. 5.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Percy and Mabel Shepstone; husband of Edna Shepstone, of Breaston, Derbyshire.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

FAENZA WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1152
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