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Able Seaman WILLIAM ALFRED COMPTON

Service Number: P/JX 130947
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Navy

H.M.S. Aurora.

Date of Death

Died 01 February 1945

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PISHILL CHURCHYARD

Grave 9.

United Kingdom

Headstone in Pishill Churchyard, Oxfordshire, UK: example of a 1939-45 Royal Navy badge code R2/1212 - the classic unslanted anchor used for the majority of 2nd world war graves (and all 2nd world war navy replacements)

Photographer: Chris Lofty

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William George and Celia Emily Compton; husband of Annie Elizabeth Compton, of Pishill.
  • Personal Inscription THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD
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Buried or commemorated at

PISHILL CHURCHYARD
Oxfordshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 1
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