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Pilot Officer WILLIAM EDWARD RIES

Service Number: 109327
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

Date of Death

Died 21 January 1942

Age 42 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KRANJI WAR CEMETERY

12. C. 19.

Singapore

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George Edward and Mary Anne Ries; husband of Kathleen Ries, of Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia.
  • Personal Inscription MAY ALMIGHTY GOD REST HIS SOUL IN PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

KRANJI WAR CEMETERY
Singapore
Number of casualties: 4574
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