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Guardsman WILLIAM WATKINS

Service Number: 2617339
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Grenadier Guards

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 30 January 1944

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY

II, C, 16.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Rosina Watkins, and stepson of Jack Payne, of Erdington, Birmingham.
  • Personal Inscription TOO FAR AWAY YOUR GRAVE TO VIEW BUT NOT TOO FAR TO THINK OF YOU. MUM AND DAD
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Buried or commemorated at

MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 2049
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