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Major WILLIAM FRANCIS KIRWAN GROOM

Service Number: 135718
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

Date of Death

Died 09 September 1943

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BONE WAR CEMETERY, ANNABA

VII. B. 16.

Algeria

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 21 Beach Group, 167 Bde.
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Charlotte Groom; husband of Marion Groom, of High Cross, Hertfordshire.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS HEART FOR HIS HOME HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY HIS SOUL FOR HIS GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

BONE WAR CEMETERY, ANNABA
Algeria
Number of casualties: 888
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