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Sapper WILLIAM JOHN SYMONDS

Service Number: 495303
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

56th Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 11 February 1919

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COLOGNE SOUTHERN CEMETERY

IX. E. 16.

Germany

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edgar and Amelia Alice Symonds, of 1, Brome, Eye, Suffolk.
  • Personal Inscription TAKEN FROM US IN PRESENCE BUT NOT FROM OUR HEARTS
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Buried or commemorated at

COLOGNE SOUTHERN CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 3324
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