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Corporal EDWARD HILTON

Service Number: 2886684
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gordon Highlanders

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 18 August 1944

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RYES WAR CEMETERY, BAZENVILLE

V. F. 6.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John William and Ellen Hilton, of Leigh, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY OF A DEAR SON. HIS LIFE A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY HIS ABSENCE A SILENT GRIEF
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Buried or commemorated at

RYES WAR CEMETERY, BAZENVILLE
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 988
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