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Lance Corporal WILLIAM HENDERSON DEMPSEY

Service Number: 2759111
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 25 October 1942

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY

X. A. 6.

Egypt

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert Dempsey, and of Annie Baxter Dempsey (nee Henderson); husband of Elizabeth Henderson Dempsey (nee Ross), of Newburgh, Fife.
  • Personal Inscription SAFE IN THE ARMS OF JESUS SAFE ON HIS GENTLE BREAST
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Buried or commemorated at

EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 7368
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