Name
Roland George Willis
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
14/02/1945
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
5959735
Pioneer Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. IPPOLYTS NEW CHURCHYARD
By Path.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
A DEAR HUSBAND AND FATHER. TO LIVE IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WE LOVE IS NOT TO DIE
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hitchin memorials
Biography
He was born in Somerset but was residing in Hertfordshire at the time he enlisted. His Service Number was 5959735. The circumstances of his death have not been discovered.
He was buried by the path in St. Ippolyts New Churchyard near Hitchin.
He was the son of Roland and Sabina Willis and the husband of Doris May Willis of Hitchin.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’
