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Trooper WILLIAM BROUGHTON

Service Number: 7905353
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

"A" Sqn. 4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters)

Date of Death

Died 06 October 1943

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY

VII, H, 10.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Eliza Broughton, of Great Lever, Bolton, Lancashire; husband of Jean Broughton, of Bolton.
  • Personal Inscription "IN THE GARDEN OF HAPPY MEMORIES THERE IS ALWAYS SUNSHINE" MUM AND DAD
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Buried or commemorated at

MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 2049
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