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Flight Sergeant WILLIAM STUART BANCROFT

Service Number: 1439184
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

103 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 13 July 1944

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COUVONGES CHURCHYARD

Grave 2.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Stuart Bancroft, and of Louisa Bancroft, of Stretford, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription NOBLY HE LIVED, NOBLY HE DIED, GRANT HIM THY PEACE, LORD
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Buried or commemorated at

COUVONGES CHURCHYARD
Meuse France
Number of casualties: 7
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