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Corporal WILLIAM ALLEN

Service Number: 14527495
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Somerset Light Infantry

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 20 November 1944

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LEOPOLDSBURG WAR CEMETERY

VI. B. 13.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Valentine Allen, and of Emeline Allen, of Dover.
  • Personal Inscription HIS FRESH YOUNG LIFE HE GLADLY GAVE HE SLUMBERS NOW IN A SOLDIER'S GRAVE
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Buried or commemorated at

LEOPOLDSBURG WAR CEMETERY
Limburg (Belgium) Belgium
Number of casualties: 800
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