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Trooper ERNEST SMEDLEY

Service Number: 4982872
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

163rd (13th Bn. The Sherwood Foresters [Notts. and Derby Regt.]) Regt.

Date of Death

Died 10 July 1944

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

IMPHAL WAR CEMETERY

8. H. 2.

India

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Erencer and Alice Smedley; husband of Florence Vera Smedley, of Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
  • Personal Inscription DEATH IS BUT THE GATEWAY TO THE GREAT REALITY; I KNOW WE SHALL MEET AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

IMPHAL WAR CEMETERY
India
Number of casualties: 1603
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