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Lieutenant DOUGLAS GATWARD

Service Number: 182322
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Essex Regiment

Date of Death

Died 12 September 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CORIANO RIDGE WAR CEMETERY

VII, B, 5.

Italy

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 2/7th Bn. The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Henry and Ayton Gatward, of Winchmore Hill, Middlesex.
  • Personal Inscription HOW WONDERFUL IT WILL BE TO MEET AGAIN, DARLING. SLEEP WELL WITH FREDDY UNTIL OUR DAY. MUMMO
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Buried or commemorated at

CORIANO RIDGE WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1940
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