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Lance Corporal ROBERT STURGE BALL

Service Number: LF/553
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Kenya Regiment

Date of Death

Died 30 July 1940

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NAIROBI WAR CEMETERY

2. H. 39.

Kenya

Headstone

Photographer: Bill Caudwell

  • Secondary Unit, Regiment and East African Reconnaissance Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert Steele Ball, and of Olga Ball (nee Sturge); husband of Kathleen Ball, of Spring Hill, Subukia. M.A. (Cantab.); Diploma, Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad.
  • Personal Inscription BLESSED IS HE. WHO HAS FOUND HIS WORK; LET HIM ASK NO OTHER BLESSEDNESS

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Buried or commemorated at

NAIROBI WAR CEMETERY
Kenya
Number of casualties: 2032
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