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Corporal WILLIAM BIRLESON

Service Number: 6898762
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Rifle Brigade

8th (2nd Bn. The London Rifle Brigade) Bn

Date of Death

Died 23 September 1944

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NEDERWEERT WAR CEMETERY

II. A. 1.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest Thomas Birleson, and of Sarah Charlotte Birleson, of Bow, London.
  • Personal Inscription GOD OFTEN WANDERS THROUGH LIFE'S GARDEN AND PLUCKS THE FLOWERS HE LOVES THE BEST
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Buried or commemorated at

NEDERWEERT WAR CEMETERY
Limburg (Netherlands) Netherlands
Number of casualties: 363
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