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Corporal HORACE GIRDLESTONE

Service Number: 4978130
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

1/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 16 February 1945

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY

Brit. Sec. A. B. 6.

Japan

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Mr. and Mrs. G.A. Girdlestone, of Netherfield, Nottinghamshire.
  • Personal Inscription WE NEVER SAW HIM DIE, WE ONLY KNOW HE PASSED AWAY WITHOUT A LAST GOOD-BYE
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Buried or commemorated at

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY
Japan
Number of casualties: 1689
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