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Corporal WILLIAM JAMES CORBETT

Service Number: 7861
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Date of Death

Died 07 September 1945

Age 48 years old

Buried or commemorated at

EDINBURGH (CORSTORPHINE HILL) CEMETERY

Sec. B. Grave 555.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Elizabeth Prowde Corbett, of Henlow, Bedfordshire.
  • Personal Inscription UNTIL THE DAY BREAK AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY
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Buried or commemorated at

EDINBURGH (CORSTORPHINE HILL) CEMETERY
Edinburgh United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 242
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