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Corporal HERBERT HIRST

Service Number: 4544249
Regiment & Unit/Ship

West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 18 July 1942

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY

XXV. H. 10.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Henry and Margaret Ann Hirst, of Leeds, Yorkshire; husband of Alice Amelia Hirst, of Bramley, Leeds.
  • Personal Inscription AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER HIM R.I.P.
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