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Private GORDON CHAMPION

Service Number: 4986788
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 18 February 1944

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NAPLES WAR CEMETERY

II. D. 2.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest Arthur and Fanny Champion, of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
  • Personal Inscription FOR US HE WEPT AND BLED, FOR US WAS NUMBER'D WITH THE DEAD, AND ROSE TO LIFE AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

NAPLES WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1230
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