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Captain ANTHONY FANE RUXTON

Service Number: 95530
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Ulster Rifles

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 14 July 1943

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SYRACUSE WAR CEMETERY, SICILY

VII. D. 13.

Italy

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment and No.3 Commando
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Charles Harcourt Vernon Ruxton and of Phyllis Maitland Ruxton (nee Wood), of Waterrow, Somerset.
  • Personal Inscription "HE THOUGHT OF DEATH AS PROMOTION" BELOVED

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Buried or commemorated at

SYRACUSE WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1067
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