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Private WILLIAM ALBERT SNELLING

Service Number: 5343143
Regiment & Unit/Ship

The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)

2/6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 07 June 1944

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

6. C. 18.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Minnie Elizabeth Snelling; husband of Dorothy Hilda Snelling, of Cippenham, Buckinghamshire.
  • Personal Inscription HIS LIFE A TREASURED MEMORY HIS DEATH A SILENT GRIEF. HIS DEVOTED WIFE
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Buried or commemorated at

ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 3066
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