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Private WILLIAM LESLIE JINKS

Service Number: 4034588
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 16 May 1940

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OVERIJSE (TERLANEN) CHURCHYARD

Grave 121.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest Henry and Edith Jinks, of Wednesbury, Staffordshire.
  • Personal Inscription "ETERNAL REST GRANT TO HIM, O LORD. AMEN" EVER REMEMBERED. MOM, DAD, DOLLY AND ERNIE
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Buried or commemorated at

OVERIJSE (TERLANEN) CHURCHYARD
Vlaams-Brabant Belgium
Number of casualties: 15
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