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Major WILLIAM HINDER LAWTON YEOMAN

Service Number: IA/259
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Indian Army Ordnance Corps

Date of Death

Died 31 March 1943

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BASRA WAR CEMETERY

7. U. 12.

Iraq

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  • Country of Service Indian
  • Additional Info Son of William Hinder Yeoman and Eliza Lawton Yeoman; husband of Marion Dorothy Yeoman, of Little Common, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex.
  • Personal Inscription "...AND LAUGHTER, LEARNT OF FRIENDS; AND GENTLENESS, IN HEARTS AT PEACE..."
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Buried or commemorated at

BASRA WAR CEMETERY
Iraq
Number of casualties: 3071
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