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Lieutenant DEREK JOHN WALMSLEY

Service Number: 315740
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

Date of Death

Died 13 February 1945

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY

27. G. 13.

Myanmar

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 10th Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Dorothy F. Walmsley, and stepson of Mr. F. W. B. Abrams.
  • Personal Inscription WAR KNOWS NO POWER, SAFE SHALL BE MY GOING
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Buried or commemorated at

TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY
Myanmar
Number of casualties: 6445
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