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Sapper JOSEPH WILLIAM ATHERTON

Service Number: 1882586
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

282 Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 05 August 1944

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BROUAY WAR CEMETERY

I. E. 2.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Elizabeth Atherton; husband of Emily Atherton, of Failsworth, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription MY SOUL HAS FOUND A RESTING PLACE, I AM, THROUGH JESU'S GRACE AT PEACE WITH GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

BROUAY WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 377
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