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Lance Corporal WILLIAM ALEXANDER DEARNESS

Service Number: B/36737
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 27 February 1945

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GROESBEEK CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

XVI. H. 1.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of William Alexander Dearness and Doris Dearness; husband of Margaret Alice Irene Dearness, of Bournemouth, Hampshire, England.
  • Personal Inscription THERE IS A LINK DEATH CANNOT SEVER, LOVE AND REMEMBRANCE LAST FOR EVER
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Buried or commemorated at

GROESBEEK CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Gelderland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 2619
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