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Lieutenant WILLIAM HESKETH

Service Number: 219093
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)

Date of Death

Died 17 July 1943

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY

III. C. 12.

Italy

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 6th Bn. Durham Light Infantry
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Annie Hesketh; husband of Mary Elizabeth Hesketh, of Liverpool.
  • Personal Inscription SAFE IN THE ARMS OF JESUS. IN SILENCE WE REMEMBER: GOOD NIGHT MY LOVE
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Buried or commemorated at

CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
Italy
Number of casualties: 2142
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