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Lance Corporal RICHARD JOHN GARDNER

Service Number: 5668683
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Sussex Regiment

5th (Cinque Ports) Bn.

Date of Death

Died 22 May 1940

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ADEGEM CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

II. AB. 4.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Ada Gardner; husband of Edith Rose Gardner of Weston, Bath, Somerset.
  • Personal Inscription GOOD-NIGHT DEAR HEART, AND IN THAT BRIGHTER CLIME BID ME GOOD-MORNING. EDITH
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Buried or commemorated at

ADEGEM CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Oost-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1158
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