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Sapper WILLIAM HERBERT WHITWELL

Service Number: 1870009
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

7 Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 27 May 1940

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COMINES (KOMEN) COMMUNAL CEMETERY

British Plot. Grave 9.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Julia Whitwell, of Rochford, Essex.
  • Personal Inscription AT THE RISING AND THE SETTING OF THE SUN WE REMEMBER
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Buried or commemorated at

COMINES (KOMEN) COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Hainaut Belgium
Number of casualties: 100
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