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Serjeant HARRY FREDERICK BIRCH

Service Number: 6850127
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Royal Rifle Corps

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 26 October 1944

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BERGEN-OP-ZOOM WAR CEMETERY

19. A. 6.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Harry and Clara Birch; husband of Eva May Birch, of Ilford, Essex.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS

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Buried or commemorated at

BERGEN-OP-ZOOM WAR CEMETERY
Noord-Brabant Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1317
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