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Private WILLIAM SAMUEL METCALF

Service Number: 8622
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Medical Corps

Date of Death

Died 26 October 1918

Age 41 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CROYDON (MITCHAM ROAD) CEMETERY

R2. 859.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alfred and Annie Metcalf; husband of Dorothea A. Metcalf, of 32, Priory Rd., West Croydon. Born at Shrewsbury.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAT HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR OTHERS
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Buried or commemorated at

CROYDON (MITCHAM ROAD) CEMETERY
Surrey United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 351
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