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Lance Corporal WILLIAM JAMES ASHTON

Service Number: 3454091
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lancashire Fusiliers

2/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 08 July 1944

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CAMBES-EN-PLAINE WAR CEMETERY

Row C. 6.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John George and Georgenia Ashton; husband of Florence Bertha Ashton, of Flixton, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription THE BLOW WAS GREAT THE SHOCK SEVERE TO PART WITH ONE WE LOVED SO DEAR
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Buried or commemorated at

CAMBES-EN-PLAINE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 224
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