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Lance Corporal WILLIAM JOHN ALEXANER FOAN

Service Number: 2573851
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Welsh Guards

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 22 May 1940

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ARRAS COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Plot X. Row 1. Grave 52.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William George Henry and Beatrice Maud Foan, of Cardiff.
  • Personal Inscription THERE'S SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD THAT IS FOR EVER ENGLAND
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