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Private WILLIAM ARTHUR RICHARDS

Service Number: 5443426
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Dorsetshire Regiment

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 06 August 1944

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

III. B. 23.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edward and Myrtle Venning Richards; husband of Winifred Frances Richards, of Redruth. Cornwall.
  • Personal Inscription NOT JUST TODAY BUT EVERY DAY IN SILENCE WE REMEMBER
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Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 4654
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