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Gunner WILLIAM FITCHES

Service Number: 922100
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

148 (The Bedfordshire Yeo.) Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 16 October 1943

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY

B3. X. 4.

Myanmar

Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, Myanmar - photos of individual gravemarkers shared on CD by Outer Area, January 2009: Plot B3

Photographer: Outer Area

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Ann Elizabeth Fitches, of Easington Colliery, Co. Durham.
  • Personal Inscription WE LIVED IN HOPE AND PRAYED IN VAIN THAT YOU WOULD SOON BE HOME AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY
Myanmar
Number of casualties: 3770
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