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Lance Serjeant WILLIAM GEORGE BEDWELL

Service Number: 1921504
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

805 Road Constr. Coy.

Date of Death

Died 31 December 1940

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WITHYCOMBE RALEIGH (ST. JOHN IN THE WILDERNESS) CHURCHYARD

Sec. C. Row 4. Grave 1.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Cecil J. Bedwell and Lily Bedwell, of Exmouth; husband of Fay Winifred Bedwell, of Exmouth.
  • Personal Inscription "CLOSE YOUR LIPS AND HIDE YOUR PAIN FIRST THE CROSS AND THEN THE CROWN"
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