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Flying Officer GERALD DOUGLAS FRANCIS HERRTAGE

Service Number: 42309
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

Date of Death

Died 16 May 1941

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HABBANIYA WAR CEMETERY

1. E. 4.

Iraq

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest C. Herrtage and Elizabeth Herrtage, of Hove, Sussex.
  • Personal Inscription TIME CANNOT HEAL SO GREAT A SORROW. SWEET MEMORIES OF YOU WILL NEVER DIM
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Buried or commemorated at

HABBANIYA WAR CEMETERY
Iraq
Number of casualties: 290
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