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Lieutenant DESMOND SNELLING

Service Number: 292756
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lancashire Fusiliers

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 17 April 1945

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FORLI WAR CEMETERY

VI, C, 20.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Wilfred and Olive Snelling, of Hull.
  • Personal Inscription HE SLEEPS WITH ENGLAND'S HEROES IN THE WATCHFUL CARE OF GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

FORLI WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 738
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