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Lance Corporal WILLIAM BACKHOUSE

Service Number: 2753501
Regiment & Unit/Ship

The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)

2/6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 02 November 1943

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY

IV, D, 16.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Jesse and Edith Ann Backhouse, of Casdeford, Yorkshire; husband of Gladys Mary Backhouse.
  • Personal Inscription TOO DEARLY LOVED TO BE FORGOTTEN
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Buried or commemorated at

MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 2049
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