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Fourth Engineer Officer WILLIAM EDWIN LEES

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Merchant Navy

M.V. Athelduchess (Liverpool)

Date of Death

Died 05 December 1939

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DUNKIRK TOWN CEMETERY

Plot 2 Row 5 Grave 7.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Edwin Lees, and of Florence Mary Lees, of Moreton, Cheshire.
  • Personal Inscription 'TIS JESUS WHO HAS CALLED HIM, SUFFER AND FORBID HIM NOT. NEVER FORGOTTEN BY MOM AND FAMILY
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Buried or commemorated at

DUNKIRK TOWN CEMETERY
Nord France
Number of casualties: 1269
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