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Corporal WALTER BRITFORD DEWE

Service Number: 4616993
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 17 April 1945

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY

7. A. 3.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Leonard and Pamelia Dewe; husband of Doreen Dewe, of Rawmarsh, Rotherham, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY. MY DARLING HUSBAND WALTER. TILL WE MEET AGAIN. MUM, DAD, SIS, & TWINS
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Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY
Gelderland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1772
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