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BIRTLEY (Gateshead)

Metcalfe, W.E., Cpl., 1945

Photo: Barney Rice

In Birtley New Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave of:-

620395 Corporal
W. E. Metcalfe
Royal Air Force
13th April 1945 age 26

Peacefully sleeping
in God's keeping
where no shadows fall

Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Corporal Metcalfe was serving as an aerial photographer in North Africa, where he contracted TB and died as a result.

William Emmerson Metcalfe is remembered at Birtley on B127.01 and in Monkwearmouth on M46.02 page 72


The CWGC entry for Corporal Metcalfe

If you know more about this person, please send the details to janet@newmp.org.uk