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Captain WILLIAM HERBERT CHARLES MANSON

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Marines

H.M.S. Merlin.

Date of Death

Died 09 April 1942

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LONGSIDE CEMETERY

Grave 81.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Frederick Percy and Phoebe Margaret Manson, of Boxford, Suffolk.
  • Personal Inscription HE FOUGHT FOR FREEDOM
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Buried or commemorated at

LONGSIDE CEMETERY
Aberdeenshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 24
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