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Major RICHARD ELLISON OVENDEN

Service Number: 70141
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Somerset Light Infantry

Date of Death

Died 22 March 1943

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SFAX WAR CEMETERY

XIV. C. 2.

Tunisia

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 6th Bn. Durham Light Infantry
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Phillip Leonard and Maude Ovenden; husband of Shelagh Iris Ovenden, of Lancaster Gate, London.
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Buried or commemorated at

SFAX WAR CEMETERY
Tunisia
Number of casualties: 1255
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