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Driver WILLIAM POTTS

Service Number: 1950408
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

240 Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 03 September 1944

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

V. C. 22.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Harris and Margaret Potts, of Dumfries.
  • Personal Inscription HE LEFT US WITH A RADIANT SMILE AND TENDER WORDS OF CHEER. GOOD-BYE, OUR GALLANT BOY
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Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 4654
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