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Private MICHAEL WILFRED BURNS

Service Number: 5179726
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gloucestershire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 19 May 1940

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MERIGNIES CHURCHYARD

Grave 4.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Michael Cornelius and Florence Annie Burns; husband of Winnifred Florence Burns.
  • Personal Inscription "WELL DONE, THOU FAITHFUL SERVANT"
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Buried or commemorated at

MERIGNIES CHURCHYARD
Nord France
Number of casualties: 12
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