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Private WILLIAM ARTHUR SHIPLEY

Service Number: 4924052
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Dorsetshire Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 29 June 1944

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOTTOT-LES-BAGUES WAR CEMETERY

IX. C. 4.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edward and Emma Shipley, of Lichfield, Staffordshire.
  • Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY SON "BE THIS OUR GRACE TO SEE HIS FACE IN JESUS CHRIST, OUR LORD"
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Buried or commemorated at

HOTTOT-LES-BAGUES WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 1138
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