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Private CHARLES WILLIAM HANDLEY

Service Number: 5047285
Regiment & Unit/Ship

North Staffordshire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died Between 15 May 1940 and 04 June 1940

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OOSTTAVERNE WOOD CEMETERY

IV. DD. 1.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles and Rose Handley; husband of Isabella Handley, of Nuncar Gate, Nottinghamshire.
  • Personal Inscription "HE THAT LOSETH HIS LIFE FOR MY SAKE, THE SAME SHALL FIND IT"
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Buried or commemorated at

OOSTTAVERNE WOOD CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1238
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