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Staff Serjeant GEORGE RUTHERFORD

Service Number: 2191917
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

Date of Death

Died 18 August 1942

Age 49 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY

22. N. 6.

Iraq

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Mary Jane Rutherford, of Bolton, Lancashire; husband of Lily Rutherford, of Bolton.
  • Personal Inscription AS EVENING SHADOWS FALL I THINK OF YOU. YOUR WIFE
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Buried or commemorated at

BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY
Iraq
Number of casualties: 7420
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