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Lance Corporal Reginald Arthur Wilcock
Lance Corporal Reginald Arthur Wilcock
Service Number: 14550916 - 7th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regt
Born December 1924 Skipton, Yorkshire, England
Died 29 October 1944, age 20
Son of Arthur Wilcock, and of Lillian Wilcock, of Nelson, Lancashire; husband of Winnie Wilcock
Personal Inscription: IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR DEAR SON, REG. HE GAVE HIS LIFE THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
BERGEN-OP-ZOOM WAR CEMETERY 9. A. 22
Eight soldiers from ‘A’ company of 7th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s, West Riding Regiment, were killed on October 29, 1944. These soldiers were buried on October 30, 1944 on land near the farm owned by the Kerstens family. The above Photograph shows the temporary graves.
Source: BBC - WW2 People's War
Near the railway crossing on Heerma van Vosstraat, eight soldiers, from the 'A' company of 7th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment, were killed on the 29th of October 1944. These soldiers were buried on the 30th of October, 1944 on land near the farm owned by the Kerstens family.
After the war their bodies were exhumed and reburied at the Bergen-op-Zoom English War Cemetery, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.
The list of soldiers killed during this action:
Cyril Henry Taylor
Reginald Arthur Wilcock
David Brindley
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