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Private WILLIAM FRANCIS STAPLES

Service Number: 6024123
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Essex Regiment

Date of Death

Died 13 November 1940

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MANSFIELD WOODHOUSE CEMETERY

Sec. B. Grave 2893.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edmund and Jessie Staples, of Mansfield Woodhouse.
  • Personal Inscription WE HAVE LOST HEAVEN HAS GAINED ONE OF THE BEST THIS WORLD CONTAINED
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