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Major CHARLES WALTER RAINFORD

Service Number: 248873
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

Date of Death

Died 18 June 1944

Age 37 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BOLSENA WAR CEMETERY

I, C, 3.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Walter and Catherine Rainford, of West Kirby, Cheshire.
  • Personal Inscription HE TOO LOVED LIFE, HE GAVE WHAT HE LOVED
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Buried or commemorated at

BOLSENA WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 600
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