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259412 Pte, Charles Austin Slaney British Army 4th Btn. Dorset Regiment from:Cheadle, Staffordshire (d.3rd Aug 1944) Charles Slaney aged 24 was killed in action on the 3rd of August 1944, during the Normandy campaign. Initially buried at Le Bigne on the 3rd Aug 1944 Charles was reburied long with 20 comrades at Tilly Sur Seulles War Cemetery on the 8th Jan 1946. Tilly sur Seulles is not far from Caen. The majority of burials here appear to be from the breakout battles and the dead were brought in from the battlefields in the vicinity for burial here in the Tilly-sur-Seulles cemetery. Buried alongside Charles Austin Slaney from the 4th Dorset's are: 4343763 Lance Corporal Gordon Francis Ball Aged 23 6143716 Lance Corporal Phillip Charles Coombs 14436851 Private William Robert Cooper Aged 18 3663782 Private George C Connor Aged 22 5735740 Lance Sergeant Charles Arthur James Dyke Aged 25 6016051 Corporal Wilfred Henry Everitt Aged 23 5334713 Private Gerald Ewers Aged 39 14702560 Private Clifford Gaskell Aged 18 14615848 Private Arthur Edward Hills Aged 19 4923487 Private George Harold Holland Aged 24 6014833 Private Douglas Haig Hunt Aged 25 14643160 Private Francis Jordan Aged 19 14702394 Private Gordon Alfred Joslin Aged 19 6144676 Private John Arthur Lee Aged 27 6143670 Private Ernest William Neal Aged 23 6023310 Corporal Charles John Newman Aged 29 5725664 Private George Joffre Owers Aged 29 14702344 Private Cecil Stanley Pentecost Aged 18 4078089 Private William Clifford Ralph Aged 22 6096589 Private Charles Albert Wickham Aged 28 Clive Peter Hancocks Add to this record.  Related Content: 4th Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment D Day and the Battle of Normandy Can you help us to add to our records? Add a record to our website. The names and stories on this website have been submitted by their relatives and friends. If your relations are not listed please add their names so that others can read about them Did you or your relatives live through the Second World War? Do you have any photos, newspaper clippings, postcards or letters from that period? Have you researched the names on your local or war memorial? Were you or your relative evacuated? Did an air raid affect your area? If so please let us know. Help us to build a database of information on those who served both at home and abroad so that future generations may learn of their sacrifice. Contact us. Celebrate your own Family History Celebrate by honouring members of your family who served in the Secomd World War both in the forces and at home. We love to hear about the soldiers, but also remember the many who served in support roles, nurses, doctors, land army, muntions workers etc. Please use our Family History resources to find out more about your relatives. Then please send in a short article, with a photo if possible, so that they can be remembered on these pages.

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