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Pte. William Robert Burt
British Army 2/5th Battalion Essex Regiment
from:Essex
William Burt was involved in the First Battle of El Alamein, from 1st to 27th of July 1942. His Battalion was overwhelmed at Deir-El-Shein and he was reported missing on 11th of August 1942, casualty list number 899.
He was a POW in Italy, camp number 51, Villa Serenity (Bari, also listed as Altamura. He was then a POW at Stalag 4f Hartmannsdorf Chemnitz, until the end of the war.