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Sergeant WILLIAM ROBERT THEODORE SHELLEY

Service Number: 564968
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

47 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 13 September 1939

Buried or commemorated at

KHARTOUM WAR CEMETERY

10. A. 6.

Sudan

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Theodore and Mary Jane Shelly, of Brighton, Sussex.
  • Personal Inscription THOUGH FAR AWAY YOU LIE AT REST YOU ARE EVER SO NEAR, DEAR, IN MY BREAST. MOTHER
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Buried or commemorated at

KHARTOUM WAR CEMETERY
Sudan
Number of casualties: 842
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