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{{Personnel
|id=1432
|Surname and forenames=Furlong William
|Army number=4457182
|Rank=Private.
|Date of birth=Born 1920/21.
|Age=20 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date as yet, but probably Spring/Summer 1939.  Posted to the ? 9th Battalion DLI.  Posted to the ? 12th Battalion DLI - probably 1/9/1939.  Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940, and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish.  Served in Northern France with the B.E.F.  KILLED in ACTION 20/5/40, Authority:- R. Casualties.
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
|Company/Battery=HQ Company.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Not known but probably Rifleman.
|Joined Brigade=1/9/1939.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not yet known.
|Prisoner of War=No.
|Died/Killed in action=KILLED in ACTION 20-May-40.  Buried Memorial Plot 8, Row I, Grave 6, [[BUCQUOY ROAD CEMETERY]], Ficheux.  His headstone inscription reads : HIS HEART FOR HIS HOME, HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY.
|Home address=Son of Charles and Annie Furlong, Jarrow.  
|Image Name=Furlong_W_4457182.JPG
|Image Title=Pte W Furlong's CWGC headstone.
|Source table=1TS
}}