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Private WILLIAM VINCENT WHELAN

Service Number: 12144
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

"A" Coy. 6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 19 July 1915

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BEDFORD HOUSE CEMETERY

Enclosure No.2 VI. A. 42.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Revina Whelan, of 44, Rokeby St., Stratford, London.
  • Personal Inscription TO LIVE IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WE LOVE IS NOT TO DIE
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Buried or commemorated at

BEDFORD HOUSE CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 5214
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