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Private WILLIAM RATCLIFFE

Service Number: 4542330
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 25 September 1943

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SALERNO WAR CEMETERY

III. A. 30.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Wilfrid and Elizabeth Ratcliffe, of Castleford, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription OF ALL THE GATES TO PARADISE THE ONE MOST LIT WITH GLORY IS THE GATE OF SACRIFICE. LOVING MOTHER AND BROTHERS
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Buried or commemorated at

SALERNO WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1855
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