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Private WILLIAM EDWARD SHARPE

Service Number: 5680823
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Somerset Light Infantry

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 05 August 1944

Buried or commemorated at

FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY

I. G. 12.

Italy

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Florence Ada Sharpe, of Netheravon, Wiltshire.
  • Personal Inscription WHEN OUR SOULS AWAKE AND LIFE'S SHADOWS FLEE IN THAT HOUR SHALL RISE THE GLORIOUS THOUGHT I AM WITH THEE
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Buried or commemorated at

FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1638
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