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Marine WILLIAM GEORGE ERNEST COLE

Service Number: PLY/X 2875
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Marines

H.M.S. Spartan.

Date of Death

Died 29 January 1944

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NAPLES WAR CEMETERY

III. C. 12.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles Edward and Annie Rose Lillian Cole; husband of Margaret Ellen Cole, of Gedney Hill, Lincolnshire.
  • Personal Inscription IN HEAVEN WE HOPE TO GREET HIM, WHERE NO FAREWELL TEARS ARE SHED
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Buried or commemorated at

NAPLES WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1230
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