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Signalman BERTIE CLOSE

Service Number: 2124616
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Corps of Signals

79th Armd. Div. Sigs.

Date of Death

Died 03 March 1945

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

54. C. 3.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George and Alice Close; husband of Annie Elizabeth Close, of Peterborough, Northamptonshire.
  • 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

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 7671
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