DARE, WILLIAM FREDRICK
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Private
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17/09/1944
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Devonshire Regiment 2nd Bn.
II. A. 15.
not just today but every day in silence we remember
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Son of William and Susan Dare; husband of Norah Evelyn Dare, of Loddiswell, Devon.
William Dare was born in April 1913 and served during the war with the 2nd Battalion Devons. On the 17th of September 1944 his unit was part of an operation called “Market Garden”. The Devons were clearing the flanks for the Irish Guards during their race to reach Arnhem. Next to the road from Lommel, Belgium, toward Valkenswaard, William Dare was killed.
William died without ever meeting his daughter.
Original gravesite along the road from Belgium towards Valkenswaard.
From the service records of William Frederick Dare, the following account can be reconstructed.
William Frederick Dare was born on 11 May 1913 in Brownstone, Kingsbridge, Devon. In civilian life he worked as a farm labourer. He enlisted in the British Army on 2 June 1939 and joined the Devonshire Regiment.
He married Norah Evelyn Rose on 17 June 1942 in Modbury, Devon. Together they had at least one child.
William Frederick Dare embarked for service in North West Europe on 26 June 1944.
According to his service records, he was 5 feet 4 inches tall, with dark hair and brown eyes.
William Frederick Dare was killed in action on 17 September 1944.
