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Corporal WILLIAM ADAMS

Service Number: 4547065
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Border Regiment

1st (Airborne) Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 September 1944

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY

21. B. 18.

Netherlands

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. H.Q. 1st Airlanding Bde
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Horace and Elizabeth Adams, of Attercliffe, Sheffield.
  • Personal Inscription A BITTER GRIEF TO PART WITH ONE WE LOVED SO DEAR. WE HOPE IN HEAVEN TO MEET AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY
Gelderland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1772
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