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Private WILLIAM GEORGE HANSFORD

Service Number: 5724604
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Dorsetshire Regiment

4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 January 1945

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BRUNSSUM WAR CEMETERY

VI. 264.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED THE HELPLESS TO DEFEND A LOYAL SOLDIER'S NOBLE END. SISTERS AND BROTHERS
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Buried or commemorated at

BRUNSSUM WAR CEMETERY
Limburg (Netherlands) Netherlands
Number of casualties: 328
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