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Private WILLIAM ALFRED YATES

Service Number: 14760814
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Scottish Borderers

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 19 March 1945

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

48. B. 2.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert Edwin and Margaret Alice Yates, of Bootle, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription "YEA, THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, I WILL FEAR NO EVIL"
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Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 7671
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