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Private WILLIAM JOHN HANCOCK

Service Number: 5444673
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 27 June 1944

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ASSISI WAR CEMETERY

III, B, 4.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Samuel James Hancock and Hettie Hancock; husband of Ida Hancock, of Roche, Cornwall.
  • Personal Inscription HE FELL THAT THERE MAY BE A CORNER OF THE EARTH FREE THAT WILL BE ENGLAND. LOVED ONES LEFT BEHIND
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Buried or commemorated at

ASSISI WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 949
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