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Private WILLIAM PRIESTLEY

Service Number: 14664124
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

14th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 16 October 1944

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ASSISI WAR CEMETERY

II, G, 2.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Emma Priestley; husband of Emma Priestley, of Bulwell, Nottinghamshire.
  • Personal Inscription WE LONGED TO CLASP HIS HAND BUT GOD WILLED THAT WE WAIT TO MEET IN A BETTER LAND. LOVING WIFE AND BABY GILLIAN
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Buried or commemorated at

ASSISI WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 949
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