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Gunner WILLIAM SWANKIE ORR

Service Number: 776669
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

15 Bty., 1 A.A. Regt.

Date of Death

Died 31 May 1940

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COXYDE MILITARY CEMETERY

IV. M. 11.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of David Marshall Orr and Anne Swan Orr; husband of Evelyn Mary Orr, of Little Heath, Potters Bar, Middlesex.
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Buried or commemorated at

COXYDE MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1673
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