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Private GEORGE RITSON

Service Number: 13068313
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Ordnance Corps

4 Ordnance Store Coy.

Date of Death

Died 26 August 1943

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY

B1. A. 9.

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 and Mary Ritson, of Bolton, Lancashire; husband of Teresa Ritson, of Bolton.
  • Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY HUSBAND GEORGE, ON WHOSE SOUL, SWEET JESUS, HAVE MERCY
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Buried or commemorated at

THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY
Myanmar
Number of casualties: 3770
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