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Private WALTER ANTHONY WOOD

Service Number: 6012118
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Essex Regiment

1/4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 June 1942

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

JOHANNESBURG (WEST PARK) CEMETERY

English Church Sec. Grave 112.

South Africa

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Foster son of Bertha J. Edwards.
  • Personal Inscription SO FAR AWAY HE LIES ASLEEP BUT STILL IN OUR HEARTS HIS MEMORY WE KEEP. M.B. AND D.
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Buried or commemorated at

JOHANNESBURG (WEST PARK) CEMETERY
Gauteng South Africa
Number of casualties: 646
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