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Private RALPH ERNEST FORTNUM

Service Number: 5960359
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 30 August 1943

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY

B1. B. 2.

Myanmar

Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, Myanmar - photos of individual gravemarkers shared on CD by Outer Area, January 2009: Plot B1

Photographer: Outer Area

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Herbert Leonard and Mary Jane Fortnum, of Boreham Wood, Hertfordshire.
  • Personal Inscription RESTING WHERE NO SHADOWS FALL, WAITING THERE TO MEET US ALL

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Buried or commemorated at

THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY
Myanmar
Number of casualties: 3770
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