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Sapper WILLIAM SHORROCK

Service Number: 3853179
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

Date of Death

Died 14 March 1940

Buried or commemorated at

LESNEVEN COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Grave 8.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Betty Shorrock; husband of Alice Shorrock, of Lytham, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription TO LIVE IN HEARTS WE LOVE IS NOT TO DIE
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Buried or commemorated at

LESNEVEN COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Finistere France
Number of casualties: 18
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