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Private WILLIAM JAMES C. SHORROCKS

Service Number: 2086114
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 10 August 1944

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

III. B. 3.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Elizabeth Alice Shorrocks, of Standish, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription THE TEST OF BEAUTIFUL LIVES IS THE MEMORY LEFT BEHIND
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Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2566
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