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Serjeant WILLIAM HENRY McBURNEY

Service Number: 4440071
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

43 (5th Bn. The Duke of Wellington's Regt. [West Riding]) Searchlight Regt.

Date of Death

Died 21 July 1942

Age 42 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PENISTONE (STOTTERCLIFFE) CEMETERY

Sec. 4. Cons. Grave 109.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Mary Elizabeth McBurney; husband of Mary Jane McBurney, of Penistone.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE THAT WE MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM
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Buried or commemorated at

PENISTONE (STOTTERCLIFFE) CEMETERY
Yorkshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 11
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