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Lance Serjeant WILFRED RIGBY

Service Number: 5051273
Regiment & Unit/Ship

North Staffordshire Regiment

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 06 October 1944

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OVERLOON WAR CEMETERY

I. D. 4.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Noah and Elizabeth Rigby, of Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent; husband of Hilda Rigby, of Burslem.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS
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Buried or commemorated at

OVERLOON WAR CEMETERY
Noord-Brabant Netherlands
Number of casualties: 281
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