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Private WILLIAM ORCHARD

Service Number: 4863406
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Leicestershire Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 30 March 1942

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KRANJI WAR CEMETERY

8. D. 20.

Singapore

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest and Charlotte Orchard; husband of Matilda Orchard, of Sileby, Leicestershire.
  • Personal Inscription TIME CANNOT CHANGE NOR SHADOWS DIM MEMORIES WE HOLD OF HIM
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Buried or commemorated at

KRANJI WAR CEMETERY
Singapore
Number of casualties: 4574
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