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Corporal WILLIAM GEORGE COMPTON

Service Number: 6463365
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)

20th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 August 1942

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ALDERSHOT MILITARY CEMETERY

A. 61.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles and Alice Rosetta Compton, of Barnsbury, London.
  • Personal Inscription GOD ALONE KNOWS HOW WE MISS YOU BUT WE WILL MEET AGAIN. MUM AND FAMILY
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Buried or commemorated at

ALDERSHOT MILITARY CEMETERY
Hampshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 857
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