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Lance Corporal WILLIAM JAMES

Service Number: 5185930
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gloucestershire Regiment

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 19 May 1940

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BRUYELLE WAR CEMETERY

I. A. 9.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George and Rosina James, of Barton Hill, Bristol.
  • Personal Inscription IN OUR HEARTS YOU WILL REMAIN UNTIL SOME DAY WE MEET AGAIN. MOTHER
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Buried or commemorated at

BRUYELLE WAR CEMETERY
Hainaut Belgium
Number of casualties: 147
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