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Guardsman WILLIAM GEORGE TAVERNER

Service Number: 2658424
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Coldstream Guards

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 31 May 1940

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VEURNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

B. 6.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Bertram and Lucy Florence Taverner, of Edmonton, Middlesex.
  • Personal Inscription DUTY WELL DONE. SLEEP ON, CHRISTIAN SOLDIER TILL WE MEET IN HEAVEN. MUM
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Buried or commemorated at

VEURNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 79
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