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Captain DESMOND FORBES RICKETTS

Service Number: 1221/AI
Regiment & Unit/Ship

6th Gurkha Rifles

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 05 May 1943

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MADRAS (ST. MARY'S) CEMETERY, CHENNAI

Plot 19. Grave 57.

India

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Indian
  • Additional Info Son of Lt.-Col. Edwin Leslie Ricketts, and of Mildred Ethel Ricketts, of Staple Fitzpaine, Somerset.
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