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Private WILLIAM AYRES

Service Number: 3596882
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Army Catering Corps

Date of Death

Died 20 September 1944

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY

5. C. 14.

Netherlands

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 1st (Airborne) Bn. Border Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles and Edith Ayres.
  • Personal Inscription AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER

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Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY
Gelderland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1773
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