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Second Engineer Officer ROBERT BLACKBURN HIRST

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Merchant Navy

S.S. Ocean Vanquisher (Hull)

Date of Death

Died 12 December 1942

Age 56 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DELY IBRAHIM WAR CEMETERY

3. D. 13.

Algeria

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Abraham Firth Hirst and Agnes Hirst, of Hull; husband of Edith Maria Hirst, of Hull.
  • Personal Inscription THE DEARLY BELOVED HUSBAND OF EDITH MARIA. LOVING DAD OF VERA & ROBERT "THY WILL, O LORD, NOT MINE"
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Buried or commemorated at

DELY IBRAHIM WAR CEMETERY
Algeria
Number of casualties: 530
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