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Flight Sergeant WILLIAM ERIC WILSON

Service Number: 1643762
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

356 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 28 October 1944

Age 38 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANCHI WAR CEMETERY

9. N. 6.

India

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Bernard and Ada Wilson; husband of Margery Wilson, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire.
  • Personal Inscription "DEATH IS THE VEIL WHICH THOSE WHO LIVE CALL LIFE; THEY SLEEP, AND IT IS LIFTED"
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Buried or commemorated at

RANCHI WAR CEMETERY
India
Number of casualties: 707
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