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Trooper BEN BLACKBURN

Service Number: 3320021
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Reconnaissance Corps, R.A.C.

56th Regt.

Date of Death

Died 14 February 1945

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FAENZA WAR CEMETERY

VIII. E. 20.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Herbert and Maria Blackburn; husband of Hilda Blackburn, of Leeds, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription GOD TOOK YOU HOME, IT WAS HIS WILL BUT IN OUR HEARTS YOU ARE WITH US STILL
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Buried or commemorated at

FAENZA WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1152
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