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Bombardier

Percy Willis

Service number 996362
Military unit 13 (Honourable Artillery Coy) Regt Royal Horse Artillery
Address Unknown
Date of birth 27 Jan 1911
Date of death 28 Jun 1944 (33 years old)
Place of birth Warsop, Nottinghamshire
Employment, education or hobbies

In 1939 he was working as a butcher for the Co-Op.
He had attended Burns Lane School, Warsop
Family history

Son of John and Louise Willis of 22 Victoria Street, Warsop.
In 1931 he married Dorothy Hampson of Kirkby in Ashfield. They had 4 children, John (1933), Beryl (1938),Roy (1941) and Peter (1943).
In 1939 the family were living at Maple Villa, Sutton Road, Kirkby in Ashfield.

Military history

Mansfield Chronicle Advertiser: 27/7/1944: Killed in Normandy,
News has beenreceived that Sgt Percy Willis whose wife resides at Sutton Road, Kirkby in Ashfield has been killed whilst serving in Normandy. He has 4 children and had worked at the C.W.S Butchery Dept since leaving school at Burns Lane Warsop.
He was buried at Tilly-sur-Seulles War Cemetery, France plot IX. J. 5.

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