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Corporal WILLIAM JOHN RICHINGS

Service Number: 7891390
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

2nd The Northamptonshire Yeomanry.

Date of Death

Died 04 August 1944

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

VIII. B. 15.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment formerly 1st The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars. Royal Armoured Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph Henry Illes Richings and Ethel Richings, of Gloucester.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 4654
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