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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Bage William Henry
|Army number=4454528
|Rank=Pte.
|Date of birth=Research indicates 3/11/1920 - registered in Auckland District Q4 1920.  Mother's maiden surname Bulger.
|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry - no enlistment date, but possibly early 1939.   Posted ? 6th Bn DLI.   Posted 10th Bn DLI - probably 1/9/1939.  Served BEF.  Taken Prisoner of War (probably on 20/5/1940 or shortly thereafter) - date notified 20/6/1940.   Date of repatriation not yet known.  Class Z Army Reserve 8/7/1946.
|Joined Brigade=Date not yet confirmed but probably 1/9/1939.
|Prisoner of War=Stalag 21C (E)  and 8B.  Prisoner number 2778.  Not apparently included in the publication of UK Prisoners of War, which suggests he may have been repatriated early.
|Died/Killed in action=Death registered November 1992 in Durham Western at the age of 72.
|Home address=18, Catherine Street, Spennymoor.  Resident of Spennymoor in 1952.  Research suggests a marriage to Ethel Brown in Durham Western in Q2 1947.
|Source table=10DLI
}}


On his return to the UK Private Bage was able to report, to the family, on the fatal injuries sustained by Private William O'Hara of 10th DLI at Ficheux.