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Private WILLIAM WALTER PEARCE

Service Number: 6142361
Regiment & Unit/Ship

East Surrey Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 02 January 1942

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TAIPING WAR CEMETERY

2. A. 3.

Malaysia

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Sophie Pearce.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED, IF IT WERE DEATH TO GIVE HIS LIFE, THAT ALL HE LOVED MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

TAIPING WAR CEMETERY
Malaysia
Number of casualties: 867
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