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Corporal WILLIAM WOODCOCK

Service Number: 3455486
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C.

51st (The Leeds Rifles)

Date of Death

Died 22 May 1944

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CASSINO WAR CEMETERY

III. G. 23.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Josephine Woodcock, of Wigan, Lancashire; husband of Hilda Woodcock, of Hindley, Wigan.
  • Personal Inscription "GOD WILL CLASP THE BROKEN CHAIN CLOSER WHEN WE MEET AGAIN" HIS DEAR WIFE
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Buried or commemorated at

CASSINO WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 4277
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