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Trooper DEREK MORTON

Service Number: 14495580
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

8th King's Royal Irish Hussars

Date of Death

Died 30 March 1945

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

62. B. 14.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alfred Edwin Darley Morton and Elsie Morton of Wakefield, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription FOR LIFE IS ETERNAL; AND LOVE IS IMMORTAL; AND DEATH IS ONLY AN HORIZON
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Buried or commemorated at

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