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Soldier – Doherty, William – Killed In Action

July 1944

South Yorkshire Times, July 8th, 1944

Killed In Action

Pte. William Henry Doherty, (20), son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Doherty, 70, Sandy Lane, Coventry, (formerly of 30, Hope Avenue, Goldthorpe), has been killed in action with the Paratroops in North West Europe.

Pte. Doherty joined the R.A.M.C. in 1942 and volunteered for the Paratroops a year later.

He was an old pupil of Goldthorpe Senior School.

From C.H.G.C.:

Private WILLIAM HENRY DOHERTY

Service Number: 14340968

Regiment & Unit/Ship Royal Army Medical Corps

Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 8th Bn. The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.

Date of Death Died 07 June 1944

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY IA. L. 2. France