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Private DONALD ARTHUR WILRYCX

Service Number: 5392827
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

2nd (Airborne) Bn.

Date of Death

Died 15 June 1944

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

IA. K. 21.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Louis Augustus and Dorothy May Wilrycx, of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
  • Personal Inscription A BEAUTIFUL LIFE HAD TO END; HE DIED AS HE LIVED, EVERYONE'S FRIEND. MUM, DAD AND FAMILY
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Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2566
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